Nebula's Guide to Wattpad: How to Write Books Like a Boss!

Writing a First Draft or Something Close to One

No book is perfect in the first draft. In fact, most are a mess of inconsistencies, poorly written characters and plot flaws, but the point of a first draft isn't to be a perfect finished product. Instead, the first draft is about getting the basic framework of your ideas down on paper in some sort of narrative form. This initial draft is the first time you will be able to stand back and see your whole story. It's not for public consumption; instead its purpose is to let you see whether or not your idea really works, whether it's distinctive, and what you need to tweak and change to make it work. This means that you shouldn't spend weeks or months editing and polishing the first chapter before moving onto the next. Instead, just get it all down on paper, you'll do all that polishing in the next step.