What is The Second Draft of a Novel? (and how I do it)

Hemingway said that the first draft of anything is shit. Go back after a month and read it. You’ll see what he meant.

The purpose of the second draft is to take the hairball you hacked up as a first draft and try to mold it into something more resembling a novel.

Key Point No. 1: Creating a second draft is not an edit of the first draft. It’s a rewrite. As a rewrite, you start over with a blank screen, or a blank piece of paper, and write it again. Only different.

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