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writersI have a first draft! I finished something! It has all the awkward inbetween bits filled in with text other than "And then they explain this part"!
... only it's awful. The pacing's all off, the characterization changes midstream, there are plot hooks that don't connect to anything and other parts of plot that desperately need hooking earlier. In short, it's a first draft.
I've never really gotten anything to this point before, not with something I thought actually had any potential. So I'm basically going to be making up my process as I go. (Current writing process: entire story in an OpenOffice document, with a .txt of notes and deleted scene fragments open beside it.)
How do you go about revising? Any useful tips?
... only it's awful. The pacing's all off, the characterization changes midstream, there are plot hooks that don't connect to anything and other parts of plot that desperately need hooking earlier. In short, it's a first draft.
I've never really gotten anything to this point before, not with something I thought actually had any potential. So I'm basically going to be making up my process as I go. (Current writing process: entire story in an OpenOffice document, with a .txt of notes and deleted scene fragments open beside it.)
How do you go about revising? Any useful tips?
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Date: 2010-07-16 12:34 pm (UTC)... yeah, letting it sit for awhile is probably best. Right now it feels like there are so many thing wrong with it I don't even know where to start attacking the problems. Will see if it looks any better in a week or three. Thanks!