The First Five Drafts: Prevent Over-Editing and Get Your Novel Done Faster with the Five Draft Method

by Stacey Carroll

This is the no-fluff, serious writer's guide to getting your novel started, edited and finished.The five draft method is designed to help you reduce your chances of over-editing, which can stall your writing process and cause you to either never deem your novel finished or ruin it in any number of ways, including inputting too many slow sections, taking out all the interesting details and doing too much ‘showing’ versus ‘telling’.In this writer's self-help book, you will learn how to write your first draft and revise your manuscript to the point where it's ready for self-publication or submission to agents and/or publishers.The Five Draft MethodDraft 1: The Junk Draft Draft 2: The Structuring Draft Draft 3: The Rough Draft Draft 4: The Analytical DraftDraft 5: Final Draft Plus! Proofreading for Publication

69 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 9, 2019

About the author

Stacey Carroll is the author of the new fiction thriller series - Avia, featuring drug running, heroin addicted, pilot, Avia Conn, and the paranormal erotic series, The Blooddoll Factory.

She is currently an author and freelance writer. She received an honorable mention in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine in 2008 for a short story entitled The Field. In 2014, she was published in 13 Stories by Us by MacKenzie Publishing.

Stacey Carroll has released three full length novels this year, including AVIA I, AVIA II and The Blooddoll Factory.