Chapter One begins with the Blank page dilemma. before digressing a bit into its subject, he talks about writing with no care for your grammar, passive voice or redundant words. Save that for the Edit phase, the rough draft is all about getting words on paper. Which we have all been told to do since the first time we were ever asked to write a story at school.
He begins with his first exercise:
So in my Journal I am going to pull out all the stops, all the stuff I keep at hand to motivate me in writing, I have a small hard bound sketchbook that is perfect for this. I'll take out my dip pen set, my water color pencils, and do it right.
"First I write for myself, to quiet the chaos of my mind, then I write to create, to be the creatrix of worlds and lore, to honor scribes of the past and to inspire those who might take on the Craft in the future. I write to share these unknown worlds with people, to teach and to grow. What is more I write so that I may be inspired by the world in which I live."
That is of course the rough version, I'll pretty it up and maybe turn it into a poem then put it in my sketch book with some little illumination style embellishments, I'm a terrible artist so it will be simple.
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