M. Arbon
Your first draft doesn't have to be good; it just has to be there.
Subsequent drafts should--at least this is the goal--be better, but a writer's drafts are like an artist's preliminary sketches: you can have as many as you like, and you don't have to show them to anyone if you don't want to.
The only draft that has to be the best is the final one. If all your other drafts are riddled with notes to yourself like NEED THIS GUY'S NAME and WAS THIS INVENTED YET and INSERT SNAPPY COMEBACK HERE and ARRGH DAMMIT WHAT IS THIS SCENE EVEN DOING, that's nobody's business but your own.
Subsequent drafts should--at least this is the goal--be better, but a writer's drafts are like an artist's preliminary sketches: you can have as many as you like, and you don't have to show them to anyone if you don't want to.
The only draft that has to be the best is the final one. If all your other drafts are riddled with notes to yourself like NEED THIS GUY'S NAME and WAS THIS INVENTED YET and INSERT SNAPPY COMEBACK HERE and ARRGH DAMMIT WHAT IS THIS SCENE EVEN DOING, that's nobody's business but your own.
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I can help you fix the manuscript, but only after you've written it! ...more
Jan 27, 2020 02:24PM