I let my very first” finished” novel sit for a few years cause during all that time I’ve been trying to figure out how to fit my characters and their stories into a more cohesive plot and I finally found that
😂 so I wrote a novel over quarantine, worked super hard but also had NO IDEA what I was doing in terms of story structure or any kind of description, so now I’m rewriting it from top to bottom, taking only the general gist a few scenes 😂. But I’ve gotten pretty far and it’s so so rewarding - I’m really just trying to love it and I don’t really care when I finish! 😄😊 This was so helpful thank you guys!!!!! 😄👍
same, i started backwards so instead of the beggining starting first, i have it as the last chapter, so now i have to go back and rewrite everything since it's really messy!
can't thank you enough for making this video and addressing this issue, I was scared for this rewriting and now this video has boosted me with some much confidence to rewrite. thank you so much
This will be verh helpful. Honestly re-writing a draft confuses me. I've never done it yet and am always curious about how to know what to rewrite, edit, or just leave it alone
Thank you both so much for this episode! Loved the house-flipping analogy. I was able to narrow down what I felt was wrong with my first act to a general lack of conflict between the characters. I made a new outline for the beginning and have been on a roll rewriting it! I’m using my favorite original scenes and adding new spins to them. I’m hopeful that it will soon match the rest of the story. As always, you guys are awesome!
So I am currently completely rewriting/working my first draft because I got sick of it and began creating what the scenes might have instead of the actual scenes 😅 It’s rough. I cannot get into it. I get discouraged because I have this incredible story in my mind but I can’t get it down, and I struggle with the beginnings. Maybe I should start elsewhere in the story because beginnings just....i don’t care for them lol. I’ve restarted the second draft again because I decided to switch to third person (hadn’t gotten too far into it anyway) I just wish I could get the fun epic story from my head onto the paper, but it’s....so hard!
Sorry I’m 9 months late… Just ask yourself : what does my character want, fear, believe but is incorrect. How can you show this in one chapter? Then go from there with the inciting incident and the rest.
Almost done re planning my outline haven’t touched my first draft yet I’m hoping the rewrite won’t be too different than my first draft but I took the setting back a few centuries so that’s gonna change a lot of things
Your blog looks amazing. I recently had to shut mine down because it gave me such a headache, so I'm envious of how nice your blog looks. I hope to see more posts there. Your latest post was a wonderful read! Made me want to go hiking.
I usualy always rewrite the outline like when I tried to fix some of my other first drafts which kinda ended up in the second draft in my current second draft outline
i have more or less the story intact, my only issue is for my first draft is completely out of order, that and i might need to check for grammatical errors as well. (I was just trying my best to finish almost 300 pages. I'm at almost 240 pages now, not including appendixes, glossary, and maps). I haven't written anything else yet until now.
What if your side characters don’t do much of anything what if your main character doesnt really do anything? That’s the big issue with the first draft and I think a lot of that problem has to do with the setting maybe?
I’m kinda scrapping most of it but a lot of plot points are still the same a lot of characters are still the same what if you only want opinions in the second draft cause it’s mostly different?
