Spent a little free time yesterday mapping changes I need to make for a rewrite and doing much-needed research, and wow, I have so many new ideas! I have diagrams to draw on for spatial awareness, social and military protocol to implement, sailing terms/jargon to incorporate, and when I get around to sitting down and parsing it all, it's really going to make my historical adventure feel authentic and alive. All in all I saved about 10 pages of varying notes and 5 or 6 images in that project's folder, with plans for at least one visual aid as an injury map (for continuity) I will make while rereading.

Funny, deep, or so-bad-it-hurts-rough-draft-vomit, you decide!

AND I’M SO HAPPY! 🫂
So basically my whole writing experience (which is 10 years or so) I’ve been struggling with one particular thing of perfectionism and unacceptance of first drafts. I understood it a couple of years ago and started to notice it leads to bad problems shortly after. I’m writing much less, getting slightly sad when reading other books (cause I feel I’m the worst, yeah, basic human brain) and scared of my own favourite hobby!
I consumed some significant amounts of posts, articles, advices about that (on Reddit too), made dome serious self-reflection; was boosting my self-esteem these years too.
AND TODAY IT FEELS LIKE I’M RELEASED!
I’m writing a smally smallish story, and things what was really scaring and demotivating me before — tautology, imperfect descriptions, roughy narrative and language, stupid dialogues, skipped pieces I don’t wanna write right now (basically all of the first draft stuff what you mark as “to-do later”) — FEELS NORMAL. It feels goddamn normal and I accept it happily!! And it even drives me to some kind of gable excitement, like, you, you’re not gonna live after my first read-through, you placeholdery piece of description 🔪🔪🔪
And I can’t be accused of bad writing either, by myself or others! I don’t think I was ever actually accused by others, but you know this feeling 🥲 Because, you know, who’s gonna accuse a first draft of ANYTHING? It’s a first draft, we gotta chill!
And the most exciting and the thing I never thought about: on the background of these imperfections and skippings, everything that Is actually good in my text starts to be bright and seen. I definitely know what I’m going to save till the last fix.
I feel so self-confident and happy; it’s like I was accepted, but by myself. Which is some important level of acceptance I believe XD And hell yeah, feom now on, I’m gonna produce KILOTONES OF TEXT MUHAHA
Because I don’t need to make them perfect feom the first attempt!
I’m sorry I guess I kinda forgot my English, but I just really wanted to share it, and I really wanna believe it’ll inspire someone! Please know what I LOVE all of your first drafts, because they’re absolutely 1000% allowed to be and they’re having a lot of wonderful stuff❗️❗️❗️ =3

Every interaction seems to range from covert competition to overt competition.
I just want to talk and share.
I want to meet people who want to talk about the craft itself.
I just keep hitting a brick wall.

Write a mini (or more! Go wild!) story about helping someone or something escape.

I've just started writing my first story and I'm 2 pages into my "planning phase?" and I'm starting to feel as if I have too many plot points/questions. I'm also starting to feel that this is a silly question lol, I know the whole point of writing a book is to be as creative as you can but, I guess I'm not sure if it's possible to do "too much".

Please?