First Draft

[Eva]

The book recommended to let someone read your first draft. Has anyone done this?

[Kat]

Personally, I don't know that I would ever share a first draft without some rewriting unless I was stuck on the story. That's because I have so many side notes and strike through's that it would be too hard to read.

[Arianna]

I think after a first draft, people are usually too close to their work to make effective changes. It really helps to let other people look at the bones of your story and tell you what makes sense and what doesn't, if there are any continuity errors, etc.The questions that they ask could be fuel for further drafts.

[Jason]

I do my own edit on the first draft (after a month, as King suggests) and then hand it to my primary reader to pull apart. After I've fixed it to her satisfaction, then it goes out to other betas, then more revisions, then to the editor, then more revisions :)

[C.E.]

He says to write with the door closed, let no one see it until you've completed your first draft, waited six weeks, read through it, fixed the obvious errors - and then share it, ahead of doing a serious second draft. Makes sense to me.

[[deleted user]]

I usually do this and it works for me. Once the idea of the story has the readers interested in more, it's sets things in motion for the deep editing and polishing. I loved this book, it's a tresasure.