by Henry McLaughlin @RiverbendSagas
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| What draft as I as a writer? |
Writers think in terms of
drafts. Not those that come in around windows and doors in the winter. But
those we write. One of the axioms among fiction writers is write the first
draft completely before doing any editing. We know it’s going to be mostly junk
but get it done to get the junk out, to have something to work with.
Michelangelo couldn’t carve
David until he had a hunk of marble and chipped away everything that didn’t
look like David. Our first draft is that hunk of marble. The subsequent drafts
are our chipping away until the David that is our story stands before us.
