Writing · by Sleepy Panda · 2026-09-01
The beautiful joy of doing the first draft badly at first on a budget
I tried this in Cape Town with a friend and we both noticed the same thing: the social part mattered more than the perfect plan.
> Tiny progress is still progress.
That line sounds cheesy, but it got me through the part where prompts stopped feeling new.
I tried this in Lagos with a friend and we both noticed the same thing: the social part mattered more than the perfect plan.
This is probably obvious to veterans here, but it clicked for me only recently. fiction got easier when I stopped treating every attempt like a final exam.
> Tiny progress is still progress.
That line sounds cheesy, but it got me through the part where prompts stopped feeling new.
I tried this in Lagos with a friend and we both noticed the same thing: the social part mattered more than the perfect plan.
This is probably obvious to veterans here, but it clicked for me only recently. fiction got easier when I stopped treating every attempt like a final exam.
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