I'm sorry for my late reply! My weekend got all eaten up by life, as well.
One of the best pieces of advice I've ever gotten on writing goes like this: "You'll never get it right the first time."
Nothing you ever see published is a first draft. It's a second, third, fourth, fifth, seventeenth draft. Those writers took their initial scribbles and polished and cut and added and polished and cut and changed things around until it was the very best they could make it. So you don't need to get it exactly right the first time through, you just need to get something out on paper. You can change it later, when you have a better idea of what the story is really like.
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One of the best pieces of advice I've ever gotten on writing goes like this: "You'll never get it right the first time."
Nothing you ever see published is a first draft. It's a second, third, fourth, fifth, seventeenth draft. Those writers took their initial scribbles and polished and cut and added and polished and cut and changed things around until it was the very best they could make it. So you don't need to get it exactly right the first time through, you just need to get something out on paper. You can change it later, when you have a better idea of what the story is really like.