Your Rough Draft is an A+
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When you are writing for fun, it is important to move away from the mindset of writing for work or for school, and this goes double when what you are writing is your first draft.
When you are first meeting your story and having that critical first conversation with it, you have to (temporarily) forget your ideas of what “good” writing looks like or sounds like.
(There will be plenty of time for that later, in the editing process.)
So, if you think that good writing is writing where an “A+” is written in the top corner, good news, your rough draft is an A+ already. The “A” here is short for “Art”, and the “+” just means that there is now slightly more art in the world than there was before you started.
It need not be good. It need not be correct, or neat, or original, or anything at all…as long as there is simply more of it than there was back when it was just an empty page.
Create new art with reckless abandon, and don’t judge it with the same strictness that you would for a final product. Find your idea first, and only later do you need to worry about making it better.