Three Things That Make Your First Draft Easier To Write
By: Jane Sumerset
Submitted: 2010-02-11 19:17:36 | Word Count: 566
Writing your first draft is different from writing a final piece for submission. Although you wanted your first draft to be clean, away from any grammatical errors and all ideas that are included in your writing needs to be complete, you can’t assume that these things can happen accordingly.
This is what you had aimed before writing your first draft. However, there are a lot of possibilities that may occur once you are on the process of writing.
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Have you experienced staring at your blank paper or at the blank document in front of your monitor and can’t think properly about the topic you are about to write? Situations like there are no words that would come out of your minds and you have no idea how to start you first draft? If that the case, then writing your first draft can’t be complete and perfect as what you might have thought.
Between the preparation and the editing, the first draft might be the most straightforward part of writing. Yet, it’s usually the one that requires the clearest mind in order to finish.
With your research finishes and your outline settled, the first draft is a simple creation of the words that convey the ideas you wish to express.
If you have familiarity with English and you can keep self doubt from creeping in, it shouldn’t prove too much of a challenge, as it’s the mere act of putting the thoughts in your head to paper. Form? Technique? Style? You can worry about that in editing much later.
I’m a huge fan of finishing a first draft as fast as possible. These three common sense techniques should help you accomplish it.
1. Set a time limit
Put a time limit on writing your first draft. Use a timer that you can easily look at and stay focused on the task. Every time you’re going to do something else other than the first draft (distractions), pause the timer. This will help condition you to work on the first draft with a fixed timeframe.
You might think that this method seems to pressure you rather than to inspire you to draw more ideas for you writing. However, this is a good thing for you to write down whatever fits your topic as quickly as you can.
You don’t have to worry about your spellings or grammars as long as you can catch up with what your mind dictates you. Besides, you can even save you’re a lot of time for your next tasks or activities.
2. Put placeholders
If the right words won’t come, skip it. A first draft is not the time to dwell on writing niceties. Should any questions arise, just ignore it and keep writing. When you “know” you need to write something particular, but can’t find the words to do it, put a placeholder as a reminder. That will keep the first draft writing flowing.
3. Don’t run checks
While we always advice people to use a good writing software, the first draft phase in not the time to do it. Get through the entire writing first and do the software based corrections at the editing portion of your writing.
Completing these three techniques will serve as your strong base in writing a better and effective article once you had finished your writing task.
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