"The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon."
~Robert Cormier
Well, that's a relief. And it's a good thing to remember when the perfectionist in your brain starts screaming at you.
Writing is a tool, but it's also an art. Making mistakes in the first draft will not ruin the story. Like with sketching, when you can erase a mistake or something not as fantastic as it could be, you can re-write and edit and make lots of changes to make the work even more beautiful. No time limit. No dire stress.
Robert Cormier puts it in a pretty simple and practical way with this quote, doesn't he?
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