The Craft: My New Novella in 3 Drafts

[This is part of a continuing series on the art of writing fiction.]

In the interest of getting you as close to the writing process as I can, I’m going to do something new on the blog. I’m going to present three different drafts from my soon-to-be-released novella, The Man Who Ran from God.

I will include the first draft, the second draft and the final draft. The first two are raw, with spelling mistakes, punctuation errors and notes intact. It’s just a guy hammering away at a keyboard. I want...