Do I ever. My first draft tends to be a very long, partly incoherenet sequence of events that jump a lot and will change their mind halfway through the writing. I'm the sort of impatient writer (and reader) who wants to get straight to the meat of a story and skip all that build up beforehand. So what I end up with is a story that starts out one way and is completely different by the last chapter.
When I edit, I have to rewrite at least 70-90% of it. My mind kind of works in this illogical order that skips and jumps merrily along regardless of any rough and messy guidelines I might have jotted down. So writing a guideline for me is pretty pointless because my mind resists the lure of actually following it.
Because I write mostly young adult fiction, my characters tend to become much wiser than their fifteen-seventeen years by the end of it. Also, I have noticed that I sometimes repeat myself (or as one editor said when they rejected my MS "trust that you have a good story without feeling the need to bludgeon the reader after the fact").
I am very much guilty of using the same word three times in a single paragraph and I have a tendancy to try and use lots of words other than "said" in a dialogue which I found that isn't sometimes wise to do.
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Date: 2009-05-09 09:17 pm (UTC)When I edit, I have to rewrite at least 70-90% of it. My mind kind of works in this illogical order that skips and jumps merrily along regardless of any rough and messy guidelines I might have jotted down. So writing a guideline for me is pretty pointless because my mind resists the lure of actually following it.
Because I write mostly young adult fiction, my characters tend to become much wiser than their fifteen-seventeen years by the end of it. Also, I have noticed that I sometimes repeat myself (or as one editor said when they rejected my MS "trust that you have a good story without feeling the need to bludgeon the reader after the fact").
I am very much guilty of using the same word three times in a single paragraph and I have a tendancy to try and use lots of words other than "said" in a dialogue which I found that isn't sometimes wise to do.
Live and learn.