Write a First Draft

Every Memoir Starts This Way

When writing a memoir, you start to write a first draft—not the second or the third.

In the first draft, you can let all the words you have inside of you spill onto the page. Writing a first draft can produce messy, nasty, melodramatic text. There are bound to be spelling errors, grammatical errors, factual errors, and missing information. Write a first draft without much editing. Editing is for later—for the second and third drafts.?

Remember when you sit down to write a first draft that there will be a second and a third. You don’t need to do second draft work—polishing, tightening, deepening—in your first draft. In fact, you shouldn’t.

Writing a first draft?is important because some of your anxieties about writing will vanish when it is done. You will know that you can, in fact, write memories down. You will know that your stories are on their way to living on in some fashion, as unruly as that first draft might be.

For hands-on help with your first draft, click?here.

~ Today’s video: Every Memoir Starts This Way

Here are links to this week’s FREE e-course:?

~ 9 Tips to Fast Start Your Memoir.?

~ Faulty Process is —Well—Useless.?

~ 3 Pillars of Starting a Memoir Right

~ 7 Basic Elements of Starting a Memoir

Two posts on our site that will be of interest to you:

~ Writing a First Draft: Why They’re Called “First”??

~ Writing Your First Draft: Every Memoir Starts That Way!??