My first *complete* draft is a gradient draft, in that the continuous rolling rewrite has been going on since the beginning, with some wholesale plot slaughter along the way of the one step forward, "back to start to make sure we turned off the iron" variety. I've discarded the first 200 pages during the writing of each of the four books I've done, and it's damned disheartening.
Then comes the editorial revision, which more often than not involves a rewrite of at least one major plotline.
This book feels different, but they all feel different at the beginning.
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Date: 2004-08-27 10:20 am (UTC)Then comes the editorial revision, which more often than not involves a rewrite of at least one major plotline.
This book feels different, but they all feel different at the beginning.