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2.2 Drafting strategy
Drafting is the stage of the writing process in which you develop a complete first version of a piece of writing. Even professional writers admit that an empty page scares them because they feel they need to come up with something fresh and original every time they open a blank document on their computers. Because you have completed the first two steps in the writing process, you have already recovered from empty page syndrome. You have hours of prewriting and planning already done. You know what will go on that blank page: what you wrote in your outline. It’s the epitome of writing, the thing we all imagine when we picture writers working away at the typewriter. At its best, all of the writer’s knowledge comes together into an experience resembling a flow sport. At its worst, the words plop out one at a time, agonizingly slow, with all the beauty and originality of a can of chunky beef soup. Every writer drafts differently, from the quality of content they produce, to the time they spend drafting vs planning vs editing, to the amount of words they draft in a session, to the amount of time each drafting session runs. Perhaps because of this individuality of process, little is written about how to draft. And rarely are writers told to examine their drafting habits and maintain a drafting strategy. Planning and revising occur before and after drafting, but not during. Intermittent drafting means that during your writing time, you’re splitting your focus between drafting, planning, and revising concurrently. For example, you might write out a plan, then draft a scene in that plan, then return to the plan and make changes. The advantage of intensive drafting is that you can keep the big picture in your mind more easily; the disadvantage is that you tend to skip over a lot of details, and if you veer from your plan, it’s hard to reconcile the plan to the draft at the end of the process. Intensive drafting can end up leading to a lot of revising on all levels. Intermittent drafting has the advantage of keeping you on track with your plan, and at the end, your plan and your draft will probably match if you’ve been keeping them synchronized. It also has the advantage of being able to make changes as you go, so that if you veer from the plan, you can make adjustments down the line without getting lost. The big disadvantage to intermittent drafting is that it takes a lot longer, and it can be easy to lose interest in the ideas encapsulated in your draft. If it takes two years to draft a book, the themes that drew your attention two years ago might not matter as much now. It can also be easy to get lost in constant tinkering and never declare the draft done. And even though you might produce a much cleaner draft than you did with intensive drafting, you might still need to do a lot of structural editing, especially if you’ve altered the plan over and over as you went. Download 0.69 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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