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The first draft of anything is shit.
Ernest Hemingway
also, hey, I wouldn’t mind more beta readers, specifically because the ones I have are best friends that I’m not sure are going objectively tear it apart the way I’d like.
Its a dry saltine of a crappy first draft space-opera-type novel, first in a series, that I spat out in exactly 18 days.
So you know, if that description didn’t sell you....
It’s honestly trash but i’m really excited about the universe that it’s unfolding in, as it’s one I’ve been building since I was 14. And I can see a lot of different novels coming out of it. If I could only write a logical plot to happen.
I usually don’t ask for beta readers until I’ve done a first re-write, but since I’m going to be doing my rewrite during camp nanowrimo in july, I wanted to go into it with a lot of notes on what’s salvageable and whats ready to be viscioulsy cut from the draft.
The NoNaNo NaNo
It’s Nov. 1, aka NaNoWriMo kickoff. And I’m not NaNo-ing because I missed my self-imposed draft deadline for book 3 in a romantic suspense trilogy.
I was sick with alien flu. But I still could have finished the draft IF I hadn’t procrastinated.
Soooooo, I’m sprinting with NaNo on the draft. When it’s done, I get to start Sharlene Gallagher book 4, my 2017 NaNo Novel. Until then…ACK! Write like…
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Why writing a crappy first draft is important.
It may seem paradoxical of me to be writing this post from the depths of revision #832-B in my current project, but the fact I would quote such a number, even in hyperbole, should convey something in and of itself about the mutability of a story and how frivolous it is to try to get anything right the first time.
There are two major reasons it is useful, even necessary to write the most horrible…
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The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. Weird.
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. Weird.
It took 47 minutes of trial and error to get to one word of good revision on the Sam and Patty story tonight.
47 minutes.
And that word was glorious. No, really, it was “Glorious.” A one word sentence. That led to 1638 new words. All of them desperately needed to help flesh out this story with decent characters.
Thank God I found the words. Or they found me.
Three hours later, it’s time to call…
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"Just get it down on paper, because there may be something great in those six crazy pages that you would never have gotten to by more rational, grown-up means. There may be something in the very last line of the very last paragraph on page six that you love,that is so beautiful or wild that you now know what you're supposed to be writing about, more or less, or in what direction you might go - but there is no way to get to this without first getting through the first five and a half pages" (Lamott, 1994, p. 23).
Writing is one of those things that needs to be forced because you can't always rely on inspiration. That way, even if you're struck down by negative emotions and road blocks, you'll still force yourself to stare at the screen, bleed out a few lousy words, and hope you'll find a nugget of gold during the editing process.
-Winter Wonders-
Each different
piled on plowed away
frozen together
/
layers of intricate design gone to waste
melted in sunlight
/
only once a year when clouds mark the sky
gray days filled with TV specials and movie marathons
/
We claim the playgrounds and parks outside
no curfew no dinnertime
until sunlight takes us away
/
evaporated up
like a blanket pulled back
we take a break and let the ground radiate
/
heat and humans pattern the parks and playgrounds
no more gray
only sunny days
-Up > Down-
Cigarette break's over
streets and cars take on motion
clouds scrape and saunter away
/
your toes tingle with jitters
like cicadas in June
/
commands and demands take over
your life a biweekly paycheck
spent never saved
/
no vacation time
no overtime
only this dead end life
