My first draft of Society 57 — my work-in-progress Young Adult portal fantasy novel — was awful. It was so awful, in fact, that I debated tabling the whole writing thing and pursuing basket weaving, or even brain surgery. Because somehow that still felt more attainable than writing a decent manuscript. Wiggling My Eyebrows at the Myth of the Perfect First Draft When I started writing my book during NaNoWriMo, I was fully convinced that I was going to be the one to do it—I was
