I used to be a pantser. Meaning, I had no outline, no direction in how I wrote a first draft.…
Tag: first drafts
To plot, or not to plot? It’s the perennial question writers everywhere eventually face. The internet is rife with articles…
You wake before your alarm, stretch, and just start typing. The words flow like melted caramel! Writing is easy and…
It is one of the minor tragedies of my life, perhaps a major tragedy in my writing life,…
I hate first drafts. I didn’t always. There was a time when I loved the thrill of a first draft,…
This isn’t my real first draft. This is a fake one I created for demonstration purposes. Check out that word…
It’s fortuitous that this topic falls here, at the end of November, as I’ve spent the past 26 days frantically…
I love NaNoWriMo. I’ve participated, in some fashion or another, nearly every year since 2002 — my senior year of…
This week at the Deb Ball, we’re talking about drafts. And as much as I’d like to say I have…
About ten years ago, I was in much the same predicament as Maggie, the narrator of my novel, The Moment…
