First Draft Deceptions

I get it. Words are deceptively hard. There’s so much that no one tells you about getting that first draft written, and trying to learn the craft while writing a novel is soul-crushing. I’ve been writing for over ten years, and during that time, I’ve come across a lot of different people who are ultimately failing themselves and their stories for different reasons.

I want to address some of the more common writer-types that I’ve come across, because getting the first draft out of you is the h...