Showing posts with label drafts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label drafts. Show all posts
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Do you feel a draft?
At work, my boss asks me a lot to draft up verbiage for this or that. Mostly email marketing pieces. Lately it has been bits for websites. These first round pieces aren't good - initially. Keyword sometimes is saying, "rough" when talking about a rough draft. Sometimes he is happy with my draft. Sometimes his feedback makes my 2nd draft 100 times better after I incorporate his ideas with my revisions.
The first draft you should write with your heart and edit later with your head.
I wish I could only harness those days, hours, or short moments when I'm flooded with more ideas than I can comprehend. I can't type faster than the ideas are coming to me. These moments are infrequent because my mind is focused on too many other things.
I recognized when writing Left Standing
that when I would get in that right state of mind, that mode, that mood - ideas would come to me and I would keep on going. It wasn't the best material that made the most sense, but you know what - I was writing. Sure beats sitting in front of a computer, staring at a blinking cursor.
That is the point: It is a rough draft, a place to compile your ideas that you want to formulate into a sentence later.
With writing, you can cut, move, add pieces to form a picture. You are creating something from nothing. Go with your instincts. Don't be afraid to write something bad.
The first draft you should write with your heart and edit later with your head.
I wish I could only harness those days, hours, or short moments when I'm flooded with more ideas than I can comprehend. I can't type faster than the ideas are coming to me. These moments are infrequent because my mind is focused on too many other things.
I recognized when writing Left Standing
that when I would get in that right state of mind, that mode, that mood - ideas would come to me and I would keep on going. It wasn't the best material that made the most sense, but you know what - I was writing. Sure beats sitting in front of a computer, staring at a blinking cursor.That is the point: It is a rough draft, a place to compile your ideas that you want to formulate into a sentence later.
With writing, you can cut, move, add pieces to form a picture. You are creating something from nothing. Go with your instincts. Don't be afraid to write something bad.
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