Comments on: From First to Final Draft: A Case Study http://www.deepgenre.com/wordpress/business-of-writing/first-to-final-draft/ Writing and Reading. Commerce and Art. Fantasy and Science Fiction. Discuss. Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:24:06 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: From First to Final Draft: A Case Study (David Louis Edelman’s Blog) http://www.deepgenre.com/wordpress/business-of-writing/first-to-final-draft/comment-page-1/#comment-2531 From First to Final Draft: A Case Study (David Louis Edelman’s Blog) Thu, 05 Apr 2007 12:50:58 +0000 http://www.deepgenre.com/wordpress/admin/craft/first-to-final-draft#comment-2531 [...] blog I belong to. But in this case, I’m making an exception. Feel free to read and respond to this entry on DeepGenre [...] [...] blog I belong to. But in this case, I’m making an exception. Feel free to read and respond to this entry on DeepGenre [...]

]]> By: Carol Berg http://www.deepgenre.com/wordpress/business-of-writing/first-to-final-draft/comment-page-1/#comment-2530 Carol Berg Tue, 22 Aug 2006 02:17:27 +0000 http://www.deepgenre.com/wordpress/admin/craft/first-to-final-draft#comment-2530 Wow, I am in awe. I could not come up with nine complete drafts of any books. I do spiral development and revision, so that by the time I write the last page, the first half of the book is in really good order, the third quarter in reasonable shape, and the last quarter pretty raw. I keep rolling through the mid to end until I'm happy. That makes a first draft that's pretty polished. Then I do one big revision pass and send it off. Of course, my first drafts take a very long time. Carol Wow, I am in awe. I could not come up with nine complete drafts of any books. I do spiral development and revision, so that by the time I write the last page, the first half of the book is in really good order, the third quarter in reasonable shape, and the last quarter pretty raw. I keep rolling through the mid to end until I’m happy. That makes a first draft that’s pretty polished. Then I do one big revision pass and send it off. Of course, my first drafts take a very long time.

Carol

]]> By: Erin Underwood http://www.deepgenre.com/wordpress/business-of-writing/first-to-final-draft/comment-page-1/#comment-2529 Erin Underwood Mon, 14 Aug 2006 13:54:40 +0000 http://www.deepgenre.com/wordpress/admin/craft/first-to-final-draft#comment-2529 David, The difference between draft 1 and draft 9 is remarkable. Thank you for taking the time and having the guts to post the 9 different drafts of Infoquake. This is an excellent demonstration of how important it is to revise-revise-revise and not to give up just because you have slung a lot of crap onto the page in an attempt to write a novel. Three cheers for you! Kate After you finished <em>Jaran</em> and submitted it to your publisher, was writing your second novel any easier than writing the first? Did the process eventually become easier with time? David,
The difference between draft 1 and draft 9 is remarkable. Thank you for taking the time and having the guts to post the 9 different drafts of Infoquake. This is an excellent demonstration of how important it is to revise-revise-revise and not to give up just because you have slung a lot of crap onto the page in an attempt to write a novel. Three cheers for you!

Kate
After you finished Jaran and submitted it to your publisher, was writing your second novel any easier than writing the first? Did the process eventually become easier with time?

]]> By: kateelliott http://www.deepgenre.com/wordpress/business-of-writing/first-to-final-draft/comment-page-1/#comment-2528 kateelliott Mon, 14 Aug 2006 05:47:09 +0000 http://www.deepgenre.com/wordpress/admin/craft/first-to-final-draft#comment-2528 By the way, posting those drafts of the first chapter is enlightening, and useful. and quite interesting. There are forex some stylistic quirks in the first draft that have vanished by the final draft. Had I read the first draft, I'd have told you to keep writing. By the way, posting those drafts of the first chapter is enlightening, and useful. and quite interesting. There are forex some stylistic quirks in the first draft that have vanished by the final draft.

Had I read the first draft, I’d have told you to keep writing.

]]> By: kateelliott http://www.deepgenre.com/wordpress/business-of-writing/first-to-final-draft/comment-page-1/#comment-2527 kateelliott Mon, 14 Aug 2006 05:43:48 +0000 http://www.deepgenre.com/wordpress/admin/craft/first-to-final-draft#comment-2527 They have to say that when they're dating you. Otoh, when I was dating the man who later became my husband, I asked him to read what was then my only complete novel, and he was, um, kind of honest. I married him anyway. The first draft of JARAN is so bad that fortunately I have already donated it to a library (with other mss) so I never ever have to look at it again. It's really really really bad. But the idea was good - it just took me many drafts to make it work. The published version of Jaran is 8 drafts and ten years of work later. They have to say that when they’re dating you. Otoh, when I was dating the man who later became my husband, I asked him to read what was then my only complete novel, and he was, um, kind of honest. I married him anyway.

The first draft of JARAN is so bad that fortunately I have already donated it to a library (with other mss) so I never ever have to look at it again. It’s really really really bad. But the idea was good – it just took me many drafts to make it work. The published version of Jaran is 8 drafts and ten years of work later.

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