Congrats on the first tag! :D I gotta ask, what's the main difference between your Shitty First Draft and your First Draft?
EEE now it's my first ask! Thanks so much! So Red Skies is a pirate romance I wrote about 60k of before I started hitting my head against some serious story problems I needed to work on, not exactly plot holes, just like--things that made some of the choices being made by the characters feel distinctly out of character.
Ironically, Shitty First Draft is actually the one that fixes the story problems.
Since I'm a freelance writer, I often have to emphasize as close to a perfect first draft as I can when it comes to the work I do for my clients. The less perfect the first draft, the more edits I have to do, the more work I'm doing for free. I called it my shitty first draft to remind myself that this is my work and it doesn't have to be perfect the first time. I can fix things like tone, flow, word choice etc, in revisions. (This is inspired by Anne Lammott's book Bird by Bird, where she spends an entire chapter emphasizing the importance of a shitty first draft.) The primary difference between the two STORIES however, is that In the first iteration, the MC is sold at an auction (consensually) where the LI kidnaps her and its the first time they ever meet. In the newest version they meet twice before she is kidnapped from her wedding to a nobleman, one that was brokered by a match maker rather than having it be that she was purchased as a bride at auction. It fixes some issues around character motivation especially with the MC and the nobleman who winds up being one of the antagonists later!
