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The rough draft

A rough draft is permission to think badly in service of eventual clarity—the necessary bridge between impulse and form where writers discover what they actually have to say rather than what they assumed they would. Accepting the roughness of early work as productive, not shameful, changes how one approaches the work itself.

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