Post by Siana Blackwood on Oct 29, 2011 0:42:48 GMT -5
I've been randomly wandering around the internet again and turned up this.
When you're revising a book you need to figure out three critical things:
*What you imagined the book would be before you wrote it,
*What it became once you finished writing it
*What you want it to be like when you've revised it.
When you're preparing to write the second draft, you can ignore spelling, grammar, word choice and all those things. Just concentrate on figuring out what the story really should be like.
Because I like to question everything, I immediately thought about that as three questions:
1. What's going to happen in this awesomely cool story idea I just had? (answer this one before starting the first draft)
2. What happened in the story? (answer this one by making a synopsis of your completed first draft)
3. All right, so what really happened? (answer this one by planning)
No, I'm not kidding about that third point. Whether you're a planner or a pantser, you'll need to plan out that second draft.
When you're revising a book you need to figure out three critical things:
*What you imagined the book would be before you wrote it,
*What it became once you finished writing it
*What you want it to be like when you've revised it.
When you're preparing to write the second draft, you can ignore spelling, grammar, word choice and all those things. Just concentrate on figuring out what the story really should be like.
Because I like to question everything, I immediately thought about that as three questions:
1. What's going to happen in this awesomely cool story idea I just had? (answer this one before starting the first draft)
2. What happened in the story? (answer this one by making a synopsis of your completed first draft)
3. All right, so what really happened? (answer this one by planning)
No, I'm not kidding about that third point. Whether you're a planner or a pantser, you'll need to plan out that second draft.
