Can You Do a Shitty First Draft?.

I write things. In lots of places. On slack (god… so many slacks.) In emails. Random scribblings in numerous paper notebooks and iPad apps. Lots and lots of markdown files in my notes folder. A stack of cards in trello for possible articles. Book outlines & chapter drafts. The odd medium post. General grumbling on social media. Some very old blog posts in various places if you dig into the internet archive.

Very little of that writing is online & public. Because I have a terrible, terrible habit of wanting things to be vaguely polished before other people see them.

Yet — as smart folk often comment — finishing stuff and getting it out there is the important thing.

This is a place I’m going to give permission for dumb, ugly, and somewhat 💩 first drafts to live. Spewling mystooks and terrible grammar is to be allowed. Along with huge logical errors and general stupidity.

But stuff will get finished and out in the world.

Like this.

ttfn.

Published: Aug 14, 2019 (last revised: Apr 4, 2024)