Do your first drafts always turn out exactly how you want them to? Congratulations! Keep doing what you’re doing.

For most of us, there’s a gap between the beautiful, magical book in our heads and the rough, inadequate first draft that lands on the page when we try to write that beautiful book down.

But here’s the good news—for every way your first draft fails, it gets you farther down the road to success. Here are a few of the ways it might happen to you.

via 9 Ways You Succeed When Your First Draft Fails | WritersDigest.com