Rewrite word slog
Aug. 27th, 2021 10:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mugenmineOh the horrors of trying to beat a first draft into shape. I'm in the middle of a first-draft do over which is basically, rewriting the story out from under itself. This is an original novella that I started in 2016 and stopped halfway through, found again when the writing bug hit me this year, finihsed it in a fury and am now dealing with the consequences of ending a story after 5 years. The consequences being, it's crap.
So I should be actually writing the damn draft right now? I have almost 300 words to meet before I will feel good about logging off. I usually don't stick to word quotas while editing, but there's so much rewriting and zero drafting being done that I think it's okay to push to 500. This thing is a hot mess right now, and when I'm finally done with this draft the consecutive will be just as hard as I have about 60% new words and those will have to get beaten down too.
I'm trying to go back to doing some process blogging for myself as a kind of "never forget" thing. Hopefully I will look back as I've done so many times before and be like, oh so that's how I did it...
So yeah, new outline of the chapter, and rewriting through it until it resembles the new story and not the old one. That's the process. Also keeping my edits in red so that I can see all of the changes that went into it and what remians.
Good enough, back to the grind.
Side note, I'm walking again! It's been 2 weeks and I'm up and moving and what that means is I've been able to get back to my walk-think-story routine and so once again, the creative waters are flowing. Oh man do I rely on walking to generate ideas. I'm going to have to find another way in case I break something again!
So I should be actually writing the damn draft right now? I have almost 300 words to meet before I will feel good about logging off. I usually don't stick to word quotas while editing, but there's so much rewriting and zero drafting being done that I think it's okay to push to 500. This thing is a hot mess right now, and when I'm finally done with this draft the consecutive will be just as hard as I have about 60% new words and those will have to get beaten down too.
I'm trying to go back to doing some process blogging for myself as a kind of "never forget" thing. Hopefully I will look back as I've done so many times before and be like, oh so that's how I did it...
So yeah, new outline of the chapter, and rewriting through it until it resembles the new story and not the old one. That's the process. Also keeping my edits in red so that I can see all of the changes that went into it and what remians.
Good enough, back to the grind.
Side note, I'm walking again! It's been 2 weeks and I'm up and moving and what that means is I've been able to get back to my walk-think-story routine and so once again, the creative waters are flowing. Oh man do I rely on walking to generate ideas. I'm going to have to find another way in case I break something again!
