Everyone wants to talk about the importance of bad first drafts—

"All first drafts are bad, so just put it out there."

"It's easier to edit a bad page than a blank page."

—but nobody wants to address the underlying identity crisis that comes affixed to every bad first draft.

"What if I just suck as a writer?"

That's the real problem with bad first drafts: they challenge our identity as writers. So how do we overcome bad first draft anxiety?