To: Number57
Don't worry about making a first draft perfect! Completion is more important than perfection.
Not to mention...while I'm writing I always feel like what I write is completely choppy and patch-worked - it's often obvious to me where I left off for a day or where I was in a different mood or not sure how I felt about a character. But when I go back to something I wrote years back, it usually turns out to work fine. It's the whole fly-on-a-painting effect. ;-) When you get too close to something, you get so focused on the little imperfections that you miss seeing that the whole work ain't that bad.
To: RosieCotton
Wow. Yeah that choppy, patchwork thing is what drives me nuts, but it IS the way I write. Its only when I am in edit-mode that I drive myself nuts. I shouldn't do that.
I'm sure this won't make me a GREAT writer, but it might make me a better writer..
thnx everyone!
42 posted on
08/17/2006 8:53:39 PM PDT by
Number57
("Don't quote Dickens in my apartment!" Joe Young)
To: RosieCotton; writer33
237 posted on
08/17/2006 11:01:50 PM PDT by
El Gran Salseron
(The FR Canteen's World Famous Resident Equal Opportunity Male Chauvinist Pig! Got it? :-))
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