{"id":446,"date":"2021-02-02T20:28:28","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T05:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fathompublishing.com\/blog\/?p=446"},"modified":"2021-06-17T08:16:49","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T16:16:49","slug":"the-first-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fathompublishing.com\/blog\/the-first-draft\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Completing a first draft means getting your ideas down on paper. You&#8217;ve accomplished something special when you can say, &#8220;I have a draft of my story.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what some established writers have to say about writing the first draft.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The best advice on writing was given to me by my first editor, Michael Korda, of Simon and Schuster, while writing my first book. \u2018Finish your first draft and then we\u2019ll talk,\u2019 he said. It took me a long time to realize how good the advice was. Even if you write it wrong, write and finish your first draft. Only then, when you have a flawed whole, do you know what you have to fix. ~ Dominick Dunne, author of five bestselling novels and &#8220;The Way We Lived Then,&#8221; a memoir with photographs.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe first draft is just you telling yourself the story.\u201d ~ Terry Pratchett<\/li>\n<li>\u201cGet through a draft as quickly as possible.\u201d ~ Joshua Wolf Shenk<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Completing a first draft means getting your ideas down on paper. You&#8217;ve accomplished something special when you can say, &#8220;I have a draft of my story.&#8221; Here&#8217;s what some established writers have to say about writing the first draft. The best advice on writing was given to me by my first editor, Michael Korda, of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fathompublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fathompublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fathompublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fathompublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fathompublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fathompublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":499,"href":"https:\/\/fathompublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions\/499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fathompublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fathompublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fathompublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}