I printed out the first draft and took it on holiday. I have been reading through it, circling typos, crossing out redundant "she said"s and "replied X"s and making notes where there needs to be more explanation and clarification.
I think the very start will need rewriting a bit, but I managed to get past 20 pages of re-drafting thanks to being stuck on a plane for a few hours, and I am very pleased to find that some of the jokes make me smile and even snigger.
This is awesome. This means that I have written something that has the potential to be good!
It is all very exciting, and the re-draft is pretty quick to do. Once I've done that and gone through and changed all the stuff that needs changing on the digital copy, I'll read it through again and make a time-line/story arc/plot point map to make sure the action is flowing in a way that makes sense. (This was Lee's idea, and I suspect it is a good one given the sporadic and scatterey way I wrote this thing.)
So yays!
Now, to get back to redrafting.
Posted by jenni at October 23, 2007 09:07 PM