{"id":1899,"date":"2013-09-11T09:30:16","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T14:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littworldonline.org\/?p=1899"},"modified":"2016-11-18T22:35:42","modified_gmt":"2016-11-18T22:35:42","slug":"the-importance-of-drafting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maiglobal.org\/pt\/the-importance-of-drafting\/","title":{"rendered":"The Importance of Drafting"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This post was used by permission of award-winning novelist T. Davis Bunn<\/a> and originally published on his blog as \u201cThe Hardest Thing A Novelist Faces”<\/a><\/em> on August 6, 2013.<\/strong><\/div>\n
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During the creative process, there are going to be moments when you have explosions of bliss. For the Christian writer, this is a feeling of moving into the presence of God. \u2018Self\u2019 disappears and you become one with the idea you are constructing on the page.<\/div>\n

And then there\u2019s the next day.<\/p>\n

The next day, you go back and re-read what you write yesterday, looking for a cheap high. You want to feel those energies again.<\/p>\n

When you start to re-read, you\u2019ll notice a thread that\u2019s dangling\u2026 an imperfection. And so you drop this; you change that. All of a sudden, the beautiful tapestry you put together yesterday is gone. It\u2019s dead. It\u2019s just words on the page. You\u2019ve lost the ability to use the momentum of yesterday to begin work on a new empty page.<\/p>\n

Many beginning novelists fear that their draft is doing to require changes, and so they start making the changes as they write.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t do this.<\/p>\n

What you\u2019ll find is that you\u2019ll feel compelled to change it again and again. Instead, finish the\"Young<\/a> story. If possible, I urge you to not even re-read your work until you finish your first draft.<\/p>\n

The hardest thing you will face as an artist is the empty page.<\/i><\/b> But you will never establish your \u201cvoice\u201d through re-writing. It comes through first drafting.<\/p>\n

The importance of drafting<\/strong><\/p>\n

Too often, an author mistakes their early book for their profession. It\u2019s not the same. You need to be establishing the discipline of regular output, not just in terms of pages, but in terms of stories. You need to be able to see yourself as growing, through the story, into the next story<\/b> \u2013 into becoming a commercial writer.<\/p>\n

A successful novelist has to be convinced that this is a great book and that what you are doing is what you should be working on now<\/i>, and that you are the person to write this story. This drives you through the first draft.<\/p>\n

The second draft is all about doubt. You question everything. I suggest approaching the second draft from the standpoint of developing your creative con<\/i>cept into a product<\/i>. These two need to be separate entities.<\/p>\n

You write the story and it\u2019s your baby until you hit the climax.<\/p>\n

Then you set it aside\u2026 you divorce yourself from the project, preferably by starting your next book. And then you do the re-drafting. Until you have identified yourself with the next story, you should not begin the re-drafting. What you\u2019ll discover is that re-drafting is more of a refining process than a drastic alteration.<\/p>\n

How I draft stories<\/strong><\/p>\n

During the first draft, I write in blocks of about 40 pages. I make constant notes at the beginning of each of these blocks. By the time I\u2019ve finished writing a story, I will have as many as 10 pages of notes for a 40-page segment. In my notes, I write out, in dialogue form, actual passages I\u2019m thinking of inserting, but I won\u2019t try to find where those passages should go in the story. I won\u2019t look at anything until I\u2019ve finished the story.<\/b><\/p>\n

If I\u2019m thinking of making a big change, such as deleting a character, I will make a note that indicates at which block the character no longer exists. But I will not take the character out during the first drafting process.<\/p>\n

The result is not just a heightened flow; I\u2019m able to maintain the sense of confidence in my storytelling ability through that first-drafting process.<\/p>\n

I can doubt the story and myself when I start the second draft. But not during the first draft.<\/p>\n

What about you?<\/strong><\/p>\n

What technique works best for you when drafting a story?<\/em><\/p>\n

Photo above courtesy Free digital photos<\/a>
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