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Your First Draft Is Supposed to Be Bad
Kevin on Kraft: EPISODE 1!
**Kevin on Kraft** is an occasional conversation between writers Kevin Tumlinson and Donn King about the craft, process, and strange magic of writing.
**Your first draft is supposed to be bad.** Seriously.
One of the biggest mistakes writers make is expecting the first draft to look anything like the finished book. That pressure to get everything right—to nail the characters, plot, dialogue, pacing, and prose on the first try—can make finishing the book exponentially harder.
In this first episode of **Kevin on Kraft**, Donn King and I dig into how stories actually…
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