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The Grunge Thing: Redrafting
Jun. 13th, 2010 12:44 pmLong weekend = making progress on the second draft.
"Redrafting" here currently means "deleting huge swathes and rewriting them". But it's all good. The rewrites have plot and direction. The book is tighter for it. More focused. Better.
Occasionally I come across a passage that I love and want to keep, even though I know it doesn't fit.
So here's my writer's tip for the day: I cut those sections and paste them into a second file, a sort of offcuts and spare parts collection. Logically, I know anything that goes into that file is for the knackers yard. But emotionally, it lets me kid myself that I might re-use that bit of much-loved prose one day, just as soon as I find the right home for it.
Writing: it's all lies, self-deception and making things up.
: )
"Redrafting" here currently means "deleting huge swathes and rewriting them". But it's all good. The rewrites have plot and direction. The book is tighter for it. More focused. Better.
Occasionally I come across a passage that I love and want to keep, even though I know it doesn't fit.
So here's my writer's tip for the day: I cut those sections and paste them into a second file, a sort of offcuts and spare parts collection. Logically, I know anything that goes into that file is for the knackers yard. But emotionally, it lets me kid myself that I might re-use that bit of much-loved prose one day, just as soon as I find the right home for it.
Writing: it's all lies, self-deception and making things up.
: )
