First Draft Club

My deadline is 9am ET and I'm just beating the buzzer :)

Find out what got me to write!

My deadline is 9am ET and I'm just beating the buzzer :)

Find out what got me to write!
https://paragraph.xyz/@angeluser/first-draft-club

Writers

I wonder if this is why I struggle with sitting down to write first drafts

I don’t have problems publishing, just facing the reality of my own ideas
https://x.com/paulg/status/1760023891437850905?s=46

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My own version of "writer problems" is the opposite of what you wrote in this cast. 

I'm all about the ideas; they flow so fast and furious I can barely keep up. But I really struggle to publish. Every single time.

Interested in human flourishing & social infrastructure | slowly building /firstdraft | markfishman.xyz

Congrats on publishing! 1500 $DEGEN

My own version of "writer problems" is the opposite of what you wrote in this cast. 

I'm all about the ideas; they flow so fast and furious I can barely keep up. But I really struggle to publish. Every single time.

https://warpcast.com/markfishman/0x88cfd486

Writer, senior editor, music nerd, GenX eldergoth, monastery-bootstrapper. https://paragraph.xyz/@danicaswanson https://tinyurl.com/Black-Stone-Wordsmith

What’s your main struggle with publishing?

I also love writing ideas down but they often come out as casts – once I need to expand/refine them it gets “real”

Main struggles:

1) As a persnickety professional copyeditor, it's hard to turn off "editor-brain" and allow my builder-self to release drafts.

2) Much as I love Paragraph and FC, I often want to publish texts that are too long for a cast, but too short for a blog post. They just sit in my drafts folder and get stale.

Again, my experience is the opposite of yours in that I struggle to confine my ideas to casts, but give me a blank page and I'll write 1000 words in the blink of an eye.