So to lend a helping hand from one writer to another, I’ll outline the basis of how you should approach the first drafting process. No doubt this very sentence will be edited or rewritten somehow before it’s published. The truth is, rarely does any copywriter get their words exactly right every time. A first draft should instead be looked at as your opportunity to be perfectly imperfect and a chance to release yourself from the restraints of getting it spot on for the first time. In a lot of ways, writing a first draft is an art form – but it’s an art form that should always reside far away from any pressures of perfection, precision or staying inside creative lines.
Therefore, I’ve made a personal vow to stop being so hard on myself. The very nature of the drafting process requires some errors and mistakes, however big or small. Whenever I’m lost for words staring at the blinking text cursor, I remember that there’s every opportunity to edit and improve upon my work at a later time. I often remind myself that you need to go into the first drafting process with an open-mind and an open-heart.
It’s time you gave yourself the same credit and leighway when writing a first draft too.
I’ve completed what most copywriters would agree is the difficult part of any drafting process. But thankfully, there’s now words on this page. Even I, as the writer of this blog, naturally began to fret a little about what I’d somehow start to type once I opened up my laptop. The anxieties of staring at a blank page are very real for copywriters.
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