I'm so excited!
I just finished getting the first draft of the Summertime Lance story onto my computer. It took me over a year to figure out how to put tension into it, but I think I've got it, now. Plus it lays down the beginnings of the relationship of the dog to his 'people' and will reflect something that happens in the Wintertime Lance story in the snow.
Wa-hoo!
Time to go downstairs and eat a tomato sandwich and celebrate! Maybe it's even time for something more drastic -- like Ice Cream? With dark chocolate and marshmallow and....
-wendieOld
Showing posts with label first draft. Show all posts
Showing posts with label first draft. Show all posts
Sunday, August 16, 2009
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Jump off a Cliff (part 2)
(read part 1, first)
I have to admit, I heard the same lecture at Vermont that the 'Through the Tollbooth' writers did (or else that faculty member uses this example every few years) and I heard the sound of over a hundred writers gasping. Maybe it was just my own intake of breath, but it seemed loud -- as if the whole room had done it.
Get your first draft written down
and then --
Hit the DELETE key?
(gasp)
How brave.
How foolish.
Are you certain you will remember enough of what you wrote to be able to recreate it?
If you delete it -- it's gone -- For-ev-er.
And yet.
And yet....
And yet, how many times have you been unable to find a file and had to recreate what you had done?
Misplaced a paper?
Woke up in the middle of the night with a thought/ wrote it down/ and were unable to read it in the morning?
Delete.
You had to recreate it.
Did you decide that your second try might have been a tiny bit better than your first attempt? And, since you weren't locked into that first version, you were free to improve/ expand/ etc.
I'm just rambling here.
Have you done this? -wendieO
I have to admit, I heard the same lecture at Vermont that the 'Through the Tollbooth' writers did (or else that faculty member uses this example every few years) and I heard the sound of over a hundred writers gasping. Maybe it was just my own intake of breath, but it seemed loud -- as if the whole room had done it.
Get your first draft written down
and then --
Hit the DELETE key?
(gasp)
How brave.
How foolish.
Are you certain you will remember enough of what you wrote to be able to recreate it?
If you delete it -- it's gone -- For-ev-er.
And yet.
And yet....
And yet, how many times have you been unable to find a file and had to recreate what you had done?
Misplaced a paper?
Woke up in the middle of the night with a thought/ wrote it down/ and were unable to read it in the morning?
Delete.
You had to recreate it.
Did you decide that your second try might have been a tiny bit better than your first attempt? And, since you weren't locked into that first version, you were free to improve/ expand/ etc.
I'm just rambling here.
Have you done this? -wendieO
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