How to Draft A Book | Finish Your First Draft
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2020
- I'm going over the basics of how to finish a draft for your first book. How much brainstorming should you do? Should you outline? How do you get started? Tips for pushing through obstacles?
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It’s insane to think a year ago I watched these kinds of videos all the time and now I’m almost done with the second draft of my 90k word novel and am looking for alpha readers!
I needed this. I've been in the pre writing stage for three months, and I couldn't stop tinkering with the set up, worldbuilding and plot. I'm diving in head first into drafting starting today. Time to write first and ask questions later.
Summary: Just write.
Just hit the 20K mark on my latest novel and I'm definitely hitting the writing wall. i'm feeling the dread of never making it to my 65-70K goal. (Especially since I'm super close to my midpoint and fear that I'm underwriting my story.) BUT I will celebrate the accomplishment of finishing the first 20K. Celebrate those milestones and keep writing, everyone!
Me: How to Stop Procrastinating and Be Courageous 😛
How can I stop reading books and actually finish my own book? I keep lying to myself each time that I'm reading for research purpose 😅
I somehow managed to make a 500 word scene into a (current) draft point of ~30k words
How do you overcome the doubting Tom voice in your head while you are writing? I mean i can't be the only person with this problem.
I thought i was an outliner, but after this maybe Im meant to be a discovery writer, I will be in “prewrting” so long, ill move from one story to another without writing much of anything.
I finished my first ever draft in December and my god it's messy but I'm so proud of it
You must start writing
340 writing days a year X one hour per day = 340 hours
When you talked about the endless cycle of pre-writing, I felt that. I’m out here acting like pre-writing is an Olympic sport 😂. This was the kick in the butt I needed! I keep thinking I need all the answers, but I’ll make more progress if I just go ahead and start already.
Love what you said about first drafts not being perfect.
I love how everyone is sharing their progress in the comments! Congrats and you can push through! 😊
I wrote two messy, almost-finished drafts. I need to re-write and work through most of those drafts to figure out how to make them work. It's super scary and I am not sure if I can do it. But I don't want to give up these ideas and start something new. So thank you for reminding me that all it really takes is getting my butt back into that chair!
Oooh, I cannot jump scenes! XD I had so many instances when I really wanted to get to a particular scene. But THAT was what drove me on with the current one. XD Finish this boring one so I can write that funny one later.
I suffer from anxiety since I was 19 years old and I've been putting my novel on hold due to school but instead writing a French language novella for some of my teachers. My French is intermediate and I had one teacher who told me that my French grammar was "a real shitshow and straight up an embarrassment" on my part but I wrote my first draft and it took me a month to finish it.
Cries in so many Works-In-Progress
Have I already finished my first draft? Yes.