7 Tips for Writing Your FIRST DRAFT | Lessons I've learned the hard way and how I draft now

Writing first drafts is one of the most fun parts of the writing process—OR the most painful. In this video, I share 7 lessons I've learned about writing first drafts from writing ten books. NOTE: These are only things that work for me. Just because they work for me, doesn't mean they'll also work for you, but the only way to improve as a writer and find out what works for you is by experimenting with different things and seeing what works. - Subscribe to my channel for weekly videos sharing actionable writing tips that helped me improve as a writer. 🎬 VIDEOS YOU WILL LIKE: How to Outline a Book Using a Plot Grid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd9_4efYEYQ How to Plot Grid on Google Sheets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wglTC5bfEoM SUBSCRIBE TO MY CHANNEL: https://www.youtube.com/c/WritewithClaireFraise ❤️‍🔥 READ THE LOVE TRIALS (book 1 in my Criminal Minds-inspired series about ghost hunters who hunt the ghosts of serial killers - enemies to lovers meets Saw): https://www.clairefraise.com/the-love-trials JOIN MY MAILING LIST: https://bit.ly/3zFpz0l 😀 CONNECT WITH ME: MAILING LIST: https://bit.ly/3zFpz0l EMAIL ME: [email protected] WEBSITE: https://www.clairefraise.com/​​​​​​ TIKTOK (where I’m most active other than YouTube): https://www.tiktok.com/@clairefraiseauthor?_t=ZP-90cwafzkR5z&_r=1 INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/clairefraiseauthor/ FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/clairefraiseauthor PINTEREST: https://www.pinterest.com/clairefraisebooks/ GOODREADS: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/14193771.Claire_Fraise ABOUT: Hi, I'm Claire! I’m an award-winning self-published author of paranormal thriller books. My book "The Love Trials" is an enemies to lovers thriller about a serial killer who forces lovers to play games designed to break their love and accidentally takes a pair of enemies instead. I won the Grand Prize at the 2023 Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Awards for They Stay, and have written four more books in the completed series. There is no one way to write a book. I’m a strong believer that the only way to develop your own writing process is by trying a bunch of different methods to find out what is the most helpful to you. In my videos, I share how I approach every stage in my writing process, from brainstorming to editing, in the hope that it could give you something to try that could help you level up as a writer. I share techniques that have improved my own writing so you can see if the same strategies help you.