Daily writing prompt

What’s the most profound piece of advice you’ve been given? Did you take it?

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The most profound, useful, and freeing advice I’ve ever found was from Neil Gaiman:
“In your first draft, write down everything that happens in your story. Then in your second draft, make it look like you knew what you were doing all along.

Yes, I’ve taken it and run with it like a cat that stole the fish right off your plate! It’s allowed me to stop obsessing about what Act I’m in, what scene goes where, does this belong in the story at all or is it too much… Now I can just write everything that happened, and let God — er, me — sort it out later.