If your first draft feels like it's wandering — like you're generating pages but not quite writing a story — this episode is for you.

After coaching and editing hundreds of first-time novelists and memoir writers, I keep seeing the same three mistakes show up in draft after draft. Not because these writers aren't talented. But because first drafts are hard, and most of us don't know what we don't know until someone points it out.

The frustrating thing about these mistakes? They're invisible from the inside. The draft looks like it's working. Pages are accumulating. But something feels off, and you can't put your finger on it.

In this episode, I'm naming all three — and telling you exactly what to do instead.

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