I have discovered that second drafts are 9385195 times harder to write than first drafts.
I’ll start adding paragraphs to a scene, but then the whole flow of it gets disrupted, and preexisting paragraphs no longer fit quite right. Inevitably I’ll have to discard some of them. But then deleting them ruins some of the buildup to other paragraphs, so I’ll have to edit or discard those, too, and ultimately the scene is broken into disjointed sections.
What do I do with this hodgepodge of (hopefully) coherent story and broken paragraphs from the first draft just floating around where they no longer belong?
Ack!
And then sometimes paragraphs that I was particularly happy with in the first draft no longer work with the changes I’ve made, BUT I DON’T WANT TO SCRAP THEM COMPLETELY
so what do I do, help, this is hard!!
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mizufae said:
this is why we have editors and betas, dear.
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