Tag Archive | merlin mann
Throw away your opening paragraphs
At the end of a writing session, throw away your opening paragraphs. The real content in your writing, and your more natural writing voice, is not in the opening paragraphs: it lives deeper in your story.
Several times recently, upon re-reading what I had written, I found the first handful of paragraphs on a blog post so awful I chose to delete them instead of trying to fix them.
