How I Wrote My First Draft in 25 Weeks
How I wrote my first draft in 25 weeks You may have heard this piece of advice before: Writers Must Write Every Day! But if you're like me, that advice is no help. I don't write every day, and I don't think it's necessary to. Everyone is different, and how we write will be different. Difference is fine. Persistence is key! This is how I wrote my first draft in 25 weeks (under six months). I didn't write every day, far from it. But I did try to write every week until I was done. My first draft was 100,000 words. This means that I averaged around four thousand words per week. That's about two chapters, for me. And it doesn't seem like a huge amount, now I look back on it. One or two chapters a week is doable. There were days when I thought I'd never finish the first draft, but I kept writing one chapter at a time. Just one chapter. Bite-size amounts. Those words all count toward the end goal! This is my method: When I sit down to w