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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.

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Kabir Khan · 1 likes

There is probably a middle ground here. The awkward constraint is probably the real story.

Huy Le · 1 likes

This depends heavily on budget, time and personality.

Cozy Baker · 1 likes

That is a much better way to say it.

Piotr Zieliński · 1 likes

@huycodes Appreciate the nuance.