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All the episodes of Galavant are on the Internet Archive!

I emphasize: DOES NOT mean that it is poorly written.

It does not mean the story is bad. Or the concept is bad. Or the words themselves are bad.

It means it is rough. It is unedited. It is not submittable, saleable, ready for publication. It's raw and messy and needs work.

As all first drafts do.

Even professionals at it for decades, dominating the industry, do not write a publishable piece of fiction when they sit down to write.

If you've seen videos of artists working from rough sketch to final piece you can compare the two.

Your first draft is bad because it is a draft.

Reminding new authors of this is a way to lessen the fear of perfection. To get out of your head and just write. To let them know it doesn't have to be perfect it just has to be written. You can fix whatever you hate in revision. You're going to be revising anyway. No matter how great the first draft reads you will be revising it. Probably more than once. So don't worry if it isn't perfect first time out.

It is not meant to be an aggressive and cruel expectation or condemnation of beginners or some declaration that your first draft must be terrible or you've failed somehow.

That is asinine.