First Drafts Sucks

  So after completing my very 1st draft of my first manuscript. I felt sooo good...like I had climbed Mount Everest or achieved something phenomenal.

I must have walked around the house the with a huge smile on my face. Nothing could get me down; I had just completed a manuscript of 82,000 words! and I felt pretty kick ass about it. You know like there was nothing I couldn't accomplish, like Mount Everest was next; oh the joy, rapture, elation (you get the drift)...

until a couple days later, I sat down, ready to begin my second draft and this happened!


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My balloon of happiness deflated immediately. No seriously, my 82,000 words of awesomeness morphed into work littered with grammatical errors and unfinished sentences.. half of which barely made sense. Needless to say, depression immediately followed and self-doubt reared its ugly head.


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"Maybe I can't write at all? Why am I doing this again? What happened to my masterpiece?" These are just few of  the questions that drive you INSANE! For newbies this can be especially disconcerting. Fact is my words were clearly lost in space or somewhere in my head and needed to make it to my manuscript.

You probably guessed but my second draft consisted of several re-writes, cuts, tweaks and lots more drafts.

If it weren't for the articles I came across supporting the idea that first drafts of anything are rarely ever good, I'm pretty sure my devastation would have lasted much longer than it did. So newbies, chin up and keep at it.