I think, for me, the hardest part is the first draft, and it's the place in which much hand-wringing and certainty of abject failure frequently occurs. So when -that's- finished, I say "I'm finished".
The revisions and editorial stuff that comes after that feels productive, and it feels more like I'm in control of the book, because I can clearly see it is a book.
But my first draft tends to be relatively clean, because there's a lot of internal fussing and revising before I hit the end stretch. When I have a first draft, I have something that it will not kill me for other people to read. Whereas some people write everything first, and then refine in subsequent drafts; my iterations are partial throughout the process. So first draft is probably also a term that is defined entirely by process.
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Date: 2007-09-12 10:13 pm (UTC)The revisions and editorial stuff that comes after that feels productive, and it feels more like I'm in control of the book, because I can clearly see it is a book.
But my first draft tends to be relatively clean, because there's a lot of internal fussing and revising before I hit the end stretch. When I have a first draft, I have something that it will not kill me for other people to read. Whereas some people write everything first, and then refine in subsequent drafts; my iterations are partial throughout the process. So first draft is probably also a term that is defined entirely by process.