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"There's a reason it's called a ROUGH draft," I sigh, creating a keysmash with my forehead.
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The world doesn’t need another perfect writer. It needs your story.
Being a writer is doubting the draft and still returning to it.
You read it. You question it. You briefly consider deleting the entire document.
And then you open it again the next day.
Doubt isn’t a sign to quit. It’s part of the craft.
If writing is a choice, then returning is also a choice.
No one forces you to sit back down. You do it because the story still matters.
Not because it’s easy. Because you decided it would.
You hit “The End” feeling like a legend… "Then edits hit you like a plot twist 😭
To be honest, how many drafts did your last book take?
Do you have a WIP?
Ever finish writing a chapter, read it five times, and still wonder…
Does this actually work?
That's completely normal.
As writers, we're often too close to our own stories to notice where readers might get confused, lose interest, or want more.
A good beta reader doesn't rewrite your book. They read it the way your future readers will and tell you what they genuinely experienced.
So, authors, here's my Monday question:
What's one scene in your manuscript you're hoping readers will love—but secretly worry they won't?
I'd love to hear about it.
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My first draft ended up being 151K words, when I want it to be more around 90K, and so I was pretty worried that I’d really struggle to cut down on the word count that much
But now that I’ve started rereading the draft to make notes on what I need to edit, I’ve been pleasantly surprised to find whole chapters that can be cut out. It’s weirdly satisfying to just drop massive chunks of the book
After planning all my story beforehand and having now written about a third part of it, I'm worried that the full work is going to be about a billion words long.
I try to not over explain everything but, man, Tolkien was so right: describing the landscape is one of the greatest pleasures of my life.
