milquetoast

Your first draft shouldn’t be ‘precious’. Don’t get it perfect. Just get it down. A first draft can feel enormous. You know the story and where it needs to go. But a scene gets difficult, the middle gets messy, or you start wondering whether any of it is working. milquetoast is built around a simple idea: build momentum through milestones and get the first draft out of your head and into the world. Break your story into small milestones. Write the parts you know. Skip the parts you don't. Leave yourself a note. Mark something to revisit later. Then keep writing. Your job isn't to make every piece perfect. Your job is to get to the end. Write at the level of the moment Imagine you’re writing a story about a guy who kidnaps his boss. Instead of staring at an empty page and wondering how to write an entire chapter, create a milestone: Jack buys kidnapping supplies. Write it. Jack loses his…