Editing While Writing Your First Draft: Should You Edit While Writing Your Book?
Have you ever edited your book while you were writing it? You have? Me, too. 🙈
In this video, you’ll learn if I recommend editing while writing your first draft, how I came to that conclusion, and why I made that decision. And because it’s me, I’ll throw some inspiration in there for you, too. Because as writers, we all need encouragement!
Watch the video below! 👇🏻
How to Write Your BEST First Draft the First Time
Ready for some tips for writing your first draft and finally getting it done??
Writing is definitely a ton of fun, but it can be difficult, too! And sometimes you don’t even know why.
When you’re writing your first draft, it can be easy to beat yourself up for not writing more, get confused about all the technical aspects of the writing process, or get so bogged down in the details of the story that you forget to tell it.
If any of this sounds familiar, THIS VIDEO IS FOR YOU.
Tips for Writing Your First Draft (Let's Get Technical)
When you’re looking for tips for writing the first draft of your book, you might not think of all the technical pieces. But they can be just as important as mindset (Related: Stop “Aspiring” to Be a Writer Blog Post) and writing craft tips! At the very least, you definitely don’t want to neglect them.
You want writing to be as easy as possible, right?
If you do (I know you do), you’re gonna want to check out this list.
The Prophecy of the Codex Playlist
One of my favorite parts about working on a new book is creating a book playlist.
Come on — I can’t be the only one who does this.
Sometimes books come so quickly (I wrote a book this summer in like 11 days, after all) that I don’t have the time to create a book playlist, but when I work on the first draft for a while, I have so much fun curating a list of songs that fit the book perfectly! It also helps me think about the book and want to get back to writing when I listen to it. I’ve gotta be sneaky with myself at times. 😏
Sometimes a particular song will speak to me during a scene, and I can actually hear the song playing while the scene is happening in my head. It’s so much fun!
Other times, I feel like the lyrics or melody really connect with the book either overall or as a particular theme in the book.
Either way, the songs on my playlist are specially chosen to fit with The Prophecy of the Codex (which comes out in just ONE WEEK, by the way!).
Ready?