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Module 5 of 6 · about 20 minutes

Voice, Length & First Full Draft

Time to assemble. This draft will not be good, and that's the plan. You cannot edit a page that's empty.

Open your Module 3 structure and your Module 4 promises side by side, and write straight through without stopping. Don't fix anything. Don't reread. Just get to the closing line.

On voice: read a sentence aloud, and if you'd never say it to your partner in a kitchen, cut it. Contractions are your friend. "I'm" not "I am." "You've" not "you have."

On length: 150–300 words. Roughly one to two minutes spoken. If you're over 350, you're not writing vows, you're writing a speech — and the good news is you can move the extra into your thank-you speech.

Read the draft out loud once, with a timer. Note where you stumbled. Stumbles almost always mark a sentence that isn't in your voice yet.

Worksheet

Everything autosaves as you type. Messy notes are perfect — nothing here is shown to anyone.

Straight through, no editing. Messy notes are perfect.

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