Karen GoatKeeper's Blog - Posts Tagged "rewriting-drafts"
First Drafts
November madness has begun. I have several books started or in rewrite on my computer already. Why write another draft?
Writers are supposed to write. Something inside of them demands that they write.
Writing a first draft is not like rewriting or editing. It has a freedom to it. Anything goes. The page is blank waiting for ideas to appear on it.
Rewriting is exciting in that a draft coalesces into a real novel but it lacks the freedom of that first draft. The basic story is known. The plot is known.
Almost the entire year I work on rewriting or completing such a story. Finishing one is exhilarating. Seeing it in print is so very special.
But, oh that first draft freedom! One month a year I can cut loose and play with crazy ideas and happenings. The story can meander or branch off into side plots. Impossible happenings are easy to think up.
Such freedom sweeps the stodgy cobwebs out of the brain. It shakes loose complacency.
Next month is time to bring that crazy draft down to Earth to become something practical. This month is time to fly!
Writers are supposed to write. Something inside of them demands that they write.
Writing a first draft is not like rewriting or editing. It has a freedom to it. Anything goes. The page is blank waiting for ideas to appear on it.
Rewriting is exciting in that a draft coalesces into a real novel but it lacks the freedom of that first draft. The basic story is known. The plot is known.
Almost the entire year I work on rewriting or completing such a story. Finishing one is exhilarating. Seeing it in print is so very special.
But, oh that first draft freedom! One month a year I can cut loose and play with crazy ideas and happenings. The story can meander or branch off into side plots. Impossible happenings are easy to think up.
Such freedom sweeps the stodgy cobwebs out of the brain. It shakes loose complacency.
Next month is time to bring that crazy draft down to Earth to become something practical. This month is time to fly!
