It’s become a bad habit now. I’ve marked up the first 1/4th of the novel but there is SO much left to do. However, I don’t want to make a big to-do out of it. Yes, I meant to do that.
A few beginner sci-fi writers I’ve met are all about the “world building.”
Seriously, why is that really a thing anymore?
NanoWriMo is over, daily word counts are done, a wild stab at writing something long has been stabbed, the horses have all flown, the gerunds have done whatever they do, the last rabid dog has been shot, and Atticus has finally shown Scout that he has the capacity for violence.
Now what?
Sure. Why not? Here is the printed out final of my first draft. Second draft involves me, pens, and my spidery, illegible handwriting. I am so old-fashioned sometimes.
Needless? Maybe. I’ve started the second draft. In this case, it begins with a chapter-by-chapter critique. I need direction before I start the Bloatening™.
At one writer’s workshop, a published author (whose name is lost to time) told me that there are no original stories anymore. In fact, (he insisted) original stories are impossible. So many books have been published over the last hundreds of years that everything has been pretty much covered.
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