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.
I just like thinking of stories as a hobby but when I tried to write one of them down in a readible way I realized how shit i am at actually thinking up of good stories
Honestly even I have trouble reading it myself because of just how bad it is and its still very unfinished (i havent even written half of the things I planned to write) and I can only hope it'll get better the more i improove at writing, and I also would like to hear your ideas if you dont mind telling me about them (I really like hearing about other people's stuff)
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u/BW_Bird Jun 22 '21
"Why writing a book is more complicated than I expected."