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Write three drafts? In my 54-year career, I've written technical reports, technical manuals, a PhD dissertation, and now fiction, and if I could have done any of them in only three drafts, I would have been extremely happy. My first novel (started in 2008) is in its 51st draft. Not complete rewrites, but enough changes to constitute a new revision. So what's the problem with doing only three rewrites? Doesn't sound like much of a burden to me. A truly expert writer might be able to write everything down and it will be perfect. For the rest of us, six to eight drafts might be required as an optimal goal. My third novel is now in its 16th draft. One of these days, I will stop revising and start submitting.

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: Do hard to pronounce names break immersion? I have a character in my book named Jiolluav (with the correct accent, Zholl-you-of or /Ê’Ål-'yoo-Ã¤v/), and I've written my entire "novel" (it's a

: Referencing another company's product in my product manual I'm making a manual that references a product that is not mine. What would be the correct way to note this? I'll give an example of

: Shortening a title without changing its meaning Essentially, I want to change: Managing a lot of people is a very difficult problem to: Lot of people, difficult problem I understand that

: Punctuating narration In a passage of narration, how would one punctuate the following sentence? Italics or quotation marks? The boy walks across the living room as words like weapons, barricades

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: Re: Is writing three drafts really necessary? So I understand the first draft which is basically writing whatever comes to mind but I don't understand why we have to rewrite it three times. Can

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: Do hard to pronounce names break immersion? I have a character in my book named Jiolluav (with the correct accent, Zholl-you-of or /Ê’Ål-'yoo-Ã¤v/), and I've written my entire "novel" (it's a

: Referencing another company's product in my product manual I'm making a manual that references a product that is not mine. What would be the correct way to note this? I'll give an example of

: Shortening a title without changing its meaning Essentially, I want to change: Managing a lot of people is a very difficult problem to: Lot of people, difficult problem I understand that

: Punctuating narration In a passage of narration, how would one punctuate the following sentence? Italics or quotation marks? The boy walks across the living room as words like weapons, barricades

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: Do hard to pronounce names break immersion? I have a character in my book named Jiolluav (with the correct accent, Zholl-you-of or /Ê’Ål-'yoo-Ã¤v/), and I've written my entire "novel" (it's a