Ediring the second draft of a novel or novella is like trying to sculpt a block of play-doh the size of a football field… With a scalpel…
Urgh.
That’s where I am right now. The glorious second draft, trying to take the scenes and make them sound good. I’m adding in the actual fights in the fight scenes. I’m making the dialog feel like dialog rather than an overdone Shakespearean play.
I have given myself two weeks to do this. It looks as though I will be confined to my office for a while…
Sigh. What is the hardest stage of the writing process for you?
Toodles!
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The first draft is the most difficult for me. I love revising and adding depth to the bones of the first draft. Good luck with your revisions!
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Thanks! I tend to rush through the first and wade through the second.
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Right now, I am trying to decide if doing the structuring of a novel is the way to go before getting the first draft going. I read up on Larry Brooks Story Engineering, K.M. Weiland’s books on Structure, James Scott Bell’s book on the same thing. Oh, back to the question: I guess getting started is the hardest for me.
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Lol! I tried structuring it before I start writing, but for me, it didn’t work. I used the second draft to work on the structure, which works for my writing style. I guess no matter when we do it, we all have to pay the piper at some point…
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The pain……
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