Slogging away on Offplanet (just a working title), 43,000-ish words in and wow am I tired of working on this dog. The outline is turning into prose well enough, but all I’m seeing is flaws and all I can think of is how much turning it into a second draft is going to hurt.
I keep telling myself it’s okay to hate this first draft because it isn’t any good because it’s not supposed to be. First drafts are supposed to suck. That’s the point of drafts.
Your first draft has weak characters, is all tell and no show and doesn’t make clear why anything is happening? Congratulations! You made something! Now you get to make it better!
Sigh. That’s what I tell myself. It doesn’t really make pounding on that keyboard any easier, tho.