M. Arbon

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I write stories, mostly queer, often sexy, featuring people who try hard not to be jerks. My stories have appeared in His Seed: An Arboretum of Erotica and Best Gay Stories 2017, and as stand-alone volumes. ...more

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M. Arbon Your first draft doesn't have to be good; it just has to be there.

Subsequent drafts should--at least this is the goal--be better, but a writer's draf…more
Your first draft doesn't have to be good; it just has to be there.

Subsequent drafts should--at least this is the goal--be better, but a writer's drafts are like an artist's preliminary sketches: you can have as many as you like, and you don't have to show them to anyone if you don't want to.

The only draft that has to be the best is the final one. If all your other drafts are riddled with notes to yourself like NEED THIS GUY'S NAME and WAS THIS INVENTED YET and INSERT SNAPPY COMEBACK HERE and ARRGH DAMMIT WHAT IS THIS SCENE EVEN DOING, that's nobody's business but your own.(less)
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I'm Bad at Blogging (and short on fiction-writing time as it is), so I won't be continuing this, but I'm @m_arbon over at Twitter if you'd like to see what I'm up to.
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