New First Draft Process
I have a different process with my current WIP. It’s a little different from the last one.
1. Previous Process: Write the draft. Get it down. Make zero edits along the way. I would sit down every day and just write. I didn’t do any editing along the way. I enjoyed doing it that way because I really just wanted to get the thing written. I figured I could fix all the problems in the editing phase. And I got most of them.
2. New Process: Sit down and read over what I wrote the day before. Edit any weird typos or sentences. Do minor additions if some extra description is needed. Do some minor deletions if there’s too much of it. Basically, light editing as I go along. Then, once I’ve taken care of that, I’m way in the zone and ready to keep going with the story. It means I’m writing slower, but I have a much cleaner first draft.
I’m also liking it because of sentences like this:
Outside, Brad was gone from his post outside.
Good grief. I wrote that?? One of the worst. sentences. ever. And here I call myself a writer. At least I got that fixed before sending it out to a beta reader.
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