Rocking Your First Draft

A self-paced course to help you write a strong, complete first draft.

Without burning out, second-guessing yourself, or getting stuck in perfectionism

You don’t need more motivation.
You don’t need to “just write faster.”
And you definitely don’t need to make your first draft perfect.

What you do need is a clear, supportive framework for writing a solid, workable first draft—one that gives you something real to revise, refine, and eventually publish.

Rocking Your First Draft is a self-paced book writing course designed to help you move from stuck, scattered, or overthinking to confidently drafting your book with clarity, structure, and momentum.

This course teaches you how first drafts actually work—and how to write one that’s strong enough to support everything that comes next.

This course is for you if:

• You’ve been circling a book idea but feel overwhelmed by where or how to begin

• You keep editing as you write and lose momentum

• You worry your writing isn’t “good enough” to keep going

• You want your first draft to be organized, cohesive, and intentional—not a mess you dread revisiting

• You want to understand craft without getting lost in theory or rigid rules

Whether you’re writing nonfiction, memoir, or narrative-driven work, this course will help you build a first draft that works.

What You’ll Learn

In Rocking Your First Draft, you’ll learn the practices and processes that make first-draft writing effective, sustainable, and far less stressful.

You’ll learn how to:

• Write a first draft that is strong, cohesive, and well-organized

• Work with your Inner Editor and Inner Critic instead of letting them derail you

• Structure your book, chapters, and introduction so you feel clear and confident as you write

• Move through your draft with greater ease, freedom, and efficiency

• Appeal to both your reader’s emotions and logic

• Summarize, paraphrase, and quote other people’s ideas clearly and ethically

• Create smooth transitions between paragraphs, ideas, and chapters

• Understand the difference between scenes and summaries, why both matter, and how to use them well

• Write strong dialogue (yes—even in nonfiction)

• Use proportion, sensory detail, and characterization to bring your writing to life