: Re: 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

Anne Lamott, in Bird by Bird, writes about starting with a "shitty first draft." That is, use your first draft to simply spew your ideas onto paper. This is the creative part of your writing. Let it all out, regardless of consistency, grammar, coherence. Later drafts are where you form that mass of crap into brilliance.

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: This is fiction? Where is it set? If you write what you know and set it where the native language is not english or the major characters don't speak english, you can emphasize your cultural

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: There are two approaches that are historically used in your situation, and some more modern ones that some people are trying. The first thing often done is to only have evil characters misbehave.

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: Add Document Data to Chapter Title I'm writing a story using Scrivener. To keep track of the story timeline, I currently write the (fictional) time and date of the happenings of each scene

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: Interacting with the antagonist or protagonist I am writing a game book where the story's plot is about an antagonist who keeps people hostage and, based on the reader's choices, they can survive

: Re: 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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: This is fiction? Where is it set? If you write what you know and set it where the native language is not english or the major characters don't speak english, you can emphasize your cultural

: There are two approaches that are historically used in your situation, and some more modern ones that some people are trying. The first thing often done is to only have evil characters misbehave.

: Add Document Data to Chapter Title I'm writing a story using Scrivener. To keep track of the story timeline, I currently write the (fictional) time and date of the happenings of each scene

: Interacting with the antagonist or protagonist I am writing a game book where the story's plot is about an antagonist who keeps people hostage and, based on the reader's choices, they can survive

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