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Revising
In his book, THE FIRE IN FICTION*, Donald Maass has this to say:
"Scenes that are written in the normal flow of accumulating pages may be fine but often will lack focus."
Truer words have never been spoken. Which is just one of the reasons I love revision. I think of the discovery draft as not only discovering what my story is about, but also about CREATING the material I will use in building the actual story. So the first/discovery draft is never (for me) the story; just the raw ingredients fo...
"Scenes that are written in the normal flow of accumulating pages may be fine but often will lack focus."
Truer words have never been spoken. Which is just one of the reasons I love revision. I think of the discovery draft as not only discovering what my story is about, but also about CREATING the material I will use in building the actual story. So the first/discovery draft is never (for me) the story; just the raw ingredients fo...
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