First drafts | Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires https://anitamathias.com Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Thu, 08 Jul 2010 19:50:00 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://anitamathias.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/cropped-Anita_lgr_hi_res_square_512-32x32.jpg First drafts | Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires https://anitamathias.com 32 32 First Drafts like Dough–Get your dough, then shape your cookies. https://anitamathias.com/2010/07/08/first-drafts-like-dough-get-your-dough-then-shape-your-cookies-2/ Thu, 08 Jul 2010 19:50:00 +0000 https://anitamathias.com/2010/07/08/first-drafts-like-dough-get-your-dough-then-shape-your-cookies-2/ The first draft is like dough–Make it first!! The first draft is like making dough.  The crucial thing is making it; without the dough, no cookies, once you have made it, you can shape it into a myriad forms. In my early days as a writer, I would foolishly try to get each paragraph right […]

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