I’ve recently finished the first draft of my new young adult
novel. This is a huge accomplishment but the panicking feeling that comes with
having to read all the mistakes and plot holes has been at the back of my mind.
A second draft can be a daunting task when you first start
to edit your book and a whole lot of red ink will adorn my first try, a lot of
things will be cut and sentences will be crossed out angrily. When I first
started I found myself getting lost in my own story, I had forgotten a lot of
what I had written at the beginning of the story and discovered my ideas for
plot and characters had changed slightly as the story had progressed over the 6
or so months of me writing. Rather than panicking over this I decided to look
on it as a good thing. My characters had developed and become different people
than I had written them at the beginning. This is what every writer and every
reader wants. A progressing and developing book one that is not stagnant and
flat.
Having hand written my entire first draft on paper I am now
beginning the gruelling task of typing my work up for the second draft. At
around 20,000 words in I have begun to love my story more and more and have
high hopes for my third and fourth drafts.
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