: Re: Is it a bad idea to linger too long on a first draft? I'm currently working on the first draft of a screenplay, and it's not very good right now. It's little things; some parts go too

It all depends on how you write. I can see that spending a lot of time on a first draft so that it is a correct first draft is important. It may be, if you are not really happy with it currently, it may be that there are some core issues that you need to resolve in this draft.

The danger is that you continue to build on a first draft, spend a lot of time on it, and only by the 3rd or 4th do you realise that there is a crucial flaw ( or someone else reading it points this out ).

So don't work on it being perfect, but do make sure that the core work is there and right. Working a long time to get that right is very worth while. then everything else is straightforward.

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