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: Is a Critique Group More Often Helpful or Not When Writing a First Draft? I am currently writing my first draft, and also happen to be in a critique group. It's my understanding a first draft
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: Idea overflow in plotting? I've been working on a paranormal/romance/mystery kind of novel for over 4 years now and still haven't finished it. It all started out as a fanfiction but I decided
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: How does one go about first drafting a linear visual novel? I’m making a linear visual novel with partial interactivity that allows the player to influence small portions of the story, but
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: Can one start the second draft when the first lacks a proper ending? I'm close to ending my first draft, literally being to the last or second-to-last chapter. I'm suffering from a strange
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: Should I show the plot to my beta reader? My wife is the first one who reads my writings, and I'd like to keep her in the dark until I have a solid draft to show her. But I need a second
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: 1000 words a day for a part-time writer I've got a 40h, full-time job, as many do. Yet I'd like to become a writer someday, or at least, bring a novel through the first draft. This considered,
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: How To Beef Up The Middle I feel that in any book I read or write, the most common problem I encounter is a drag in the middle of the book. What are some suggestions of how to stay on
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: First draft Word count. Do you find your first draft is longer or shorter than your completed work? I understand that I will be cutting alot of unnessary words, but I also have a list of
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: What should my redraft phase entail? I've been reading Stephen King's On Writing and he's got quite a lot to say about the redraft phase. He explains his working method. Write with the door
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: How can I make my 'first draft' good enough to be published? One of my bugbears about writing is the editing process. I'd much rather get it right first time, rather than chop this and change
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: How to add depth to writing - turn a story into a book I've had a few 'great ideas' for books. I'm a big sci-fi fan, especially Michael Crichton. I'm not sure if that's relevant but there
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: Publishing fiction: when do I start looking for an agent? I am just about finished with the first draft of a novel I've been working on. I've been writing novels for about ten years and I've
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: To break free and write something new or finish the rough draft I'm at a crossroads to figure out the better plan of action. I've heard you should always try to finish the rough draft, but...are
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: At what stage of writing a first draft is it the best time to do a rewrite? I'm part way into writing a novel and after looking back over the work I've already done i'm seriously thinking
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: Do some people lack the ability to generate ideas or content for writing? Are some people, either due to lack of world experience, or creative talent, incapable of forming content for their
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: What do sentences look like in a rough draft before they are combined into a cumulative sentence? I am unwilling to draft without editing as I go because I worry I won't be able to translate
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: Can I avoid free writing? We write the best way, not when trying to perfect every sentence as we write our first draft, but when writing down our thoughts and not revising them till we finish
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: Act 3 totally broken...keep writing? I'm ready to enter the final act, Act 3, of my (first big) story and by now I'm pretty sure I'll have to rewrite 50-70% in ACT 1 and 2. I outlined
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: How to interpret editor feedback? I've just received the written feedback from an editor in a large publishing house. On the whole it's very critical, with the occassional "could be good" thrown
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: In What Way are Most First Drafts Bad? I've heard from a lot of people - both on this site and elsewhere - that your first draft will be terrible. Some even say that you will barely use
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: Submitting a partially complete draft? I'm 50,000 words into my first book. Based on my plot and roadmap, that's about 25% of the way into it, so about 200k. I have roughly 110 pages in a
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: What should I do after I finish writing my novel? A few days ago I started writing the first draft of my current novel project. I was wondering what should I do with it when I'm done.
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: How linear should I be in writing my story? This my most serious writing endeavor ever. I've gotten much farther than I've dreamed of getting. So far, I've been chugging along writing everything
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: How rough should a rough draft be For a long time I would edit chapters as I wrote them, to make them as complete as possible. Unfortunately this often resulted in me running out of steam
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: I want my coauthor to feel comfortable making changes to my work I'm sending a draft to my coauthor (senior and more experienced). I'm new to the world of coauthoring and was wondering what
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: My first comedy plot draft is very bland - how far can I go on calling this out? I'm currently working on my first book, a sci-fi comedy set on an alternate history Earth which has progressed
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: What are First Drafts, Second Drafts, etc.? I've been reading a few questions on this site, and I've seen the terms First, Second or Third Drafts. What does this refer to actually? And could
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: Hand wrote 200 page novel- how many typed pages is that? I wrote 200 pages in a good sized notebook in my tiny, illegible handwriting and I now have the task of typing it up. I am slightly
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: Is the first draft of a novel usually shorter than the finished work? I finished the first draft of a novel I'm writing. Right now, it has 17000 words. I've heard that novels these days range
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: How to make out that my work doesn't require any more editing? Considering that I'm writing a novel or a short story story (fiction) and I penned down the first draft. And then I began editing
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: What to do with my odd-length work? I've just about finished up the first draft of a piece of work I've put a good deal of love into. It's genre fiction (paranormal/supernatural horror/urban
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: So I finished my novel. Now what do I do? A few days ago I finished the first draft of my current novel project after a few months of work, finishing at 83,212 words. Now what should I
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