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Richa Vadini Singh's avatar

What a serendipitous delight to have discovered your piece just a day after I published my thoughts on the writing process!

It always begins with a shitty first draft, one that sometimes threatens to rob me of all self-confidence. But, the magic almost always unfolds in the editing process, that which turns a terrible first draft into a terrific publication.

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Jonathan Delp's avatar

People always see and praise the finished product by a great author - they don’t always look at day after day of consistent quiet effort to grow through the shit and frustration that built to all that good good.

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Rebecca J. Gomez's avatar

I’m okay with bad first drafts because revision is where I thrive!

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