I can feel a slight draft

I wrote the first 1000 words of the first draft of my novel today.

I started at 8:30 this morning with the intention of working till 5pm, just writing down as much as I could within that timeframe without stopping to do an edit. That got me to about 500 words in the first hour or so written in the first person that were pretty basic and felt pretty rushed. So then I stripped down two main points I wanted to make from my 500 words and rewrote them as scenes from a movie, you know, scene descriptions and dialogue lines.

I then took those two scenes, placed them alongside the first person draft I had started and rewrote in the third person. I got to about 600 words and then stopped for what was supposed to be a one hour lunch. I took a two and a half hour lunch instead. Discipline and focus are not necessarily my middle names, though I think I read somewhere that they were the middle names of a couple of Anthony Robbins' children.

Then after lunch I wrote another 400 words surprisingly quickly and decided that rather than stick it out till five I would call it at 1000 words. So I finished at 3:45pm.

I've read a few writing tips online and in books that stress that a first draft of any novel is pretty much a load of shit. Mine's no different, reading it back I realized that it's lighter in tone than I intend and also it's pretty sloppy writing than needs tightening. I certainly don't want words like light and sloppy being associated with what I do ultimately, I get enough of that from the ladies as is, so there will be some tightening up done down the line.

I'm happy with some of it though. There's something there that's real.