HOW TO SUPPLEMENTAL : THE ART OF THE UGLY FIRST DRAFT.

"THE GOOD, THE ARTFUL AND THE UGLY."

I've been thinking a lot about first impressions. The first date, the first day of class, the first time you see a collection on the runway. You want everything to be perfect. You have all these words swirling in your head, all this meaning you're desperate to convey, and you just know you're going to get it exactly right.

But sometimes, what comes out first is the ugly draft. It's clunky, it's missing commas, it's full of ideas that stumble over each other, and it's not at all what you imagined. It's raw, it's messy, and it's kind of embarrassing. I think we all have an ugly draft in us—a version of ourselves that's just a rough sketch, waiting for the real artist to show up.

The thing is, nobody sees that first draft. They don't see the writer wrestling with a sentence for an hour or the sculptor chipping away at a block of stone. They only see the finished product: the perfectly formed argument, the chiseled jawline of the final statue. But the truth is, the most stunning final pieces are born from the ugliest, most chaotic beginnings.

The art isn’t just in the final product. The true magic is in the editing, the refining, the polishing. It’s in knowing when to cut a sentence that doesn’t fit, when to rewrite a whole paragraph to make the meaning sing. It’s a testament to the fact that just because something starts out messy doesn’t mean it has to stay that way.

So yes, the devil might be in the details, but so is the redemption. The best writers aren’t the ones who never make mistakes. They’re the ones who aren't afraid to let their ugly first draft see the light of day, because they know they can always make it beautiful.

ーG.R.

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