From Rough Draft to Finished Story: My Process

Every story begins the same way: with a blank page.

Getting the story out of your head and onto the page is often the hardest part. It took me a long time to accept that I didn’t need every sentence to be perfect before moving on. In fact, trying to make every paragraph flawless usually meant I wasn’t making any progress at all.

Writers generally fall into two camps: plotters and pantsers.