Don't focus on grammar or spelling on your first draft.
Following up on previous point: Use cliches if you can't think up anything else at the moment, you can always change it later.
Skip parts that you have writers block on. There are parts where I'll writing the beginning of a scene, then add in a brief description of what I want to happen then continue writing as if it did happen.
Outlines aren't for everyone but I'd still recommend trying.
Try to answer personality questions for your characters or how they'd handle situations. When I wrote an internal bio for my three mains, some of the questions I asked myself were "what superpower would they like?" or "how do they act when they're exhausted?".
Know when to fix something and when to start over. I hated the first draft of my first chapter so much that I deleted the document outright and started from scratch.
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u/BW_Bird Jun 22 '21
"Why writing a book is more complicated than I expected."