Don't Press Delete

For some reason, it is far easier to press Delete or Backspace than it is to press any other key on a keyboard. It seems odd, but I constantly see people writing things and them deleting them. Then they write something else and delete it again. Then they go and rewrite the first thing they came up with and go ahead and delete it again.

The point of a first draft is not the words; it's the structure. It's about getting down the concepts you care about. It might also have some of the layout that you want. But aside from that, the words are not the concern.

If you are always deleting what you write, it's probably because you are agonizing over the perfect wording. That is going to be your downfall. It will take more time to try to find the perfect words than it would to spit out a draft and have it revised. Not to mention, no matter how good you think it is, all first drafts have to be revised at least some. 

I've talked about this idea before, but I feel it's important to come back to the subject with a new way to say the same thing and to have a new trick.

Don't press delete. Write without backspace. Whatever comes to you, let it out and don't worry about if it is just right or not. Just get down the ideas and move forward.