The First Draft

Hi there,

As I write my new book the main issue is my new and under developed characters. What I'm really writing is dialogue. Dialogue is the number one problem for all books. My dialogue sounds the same and it's boring. That's okay though! This is my first draft it's supposed to suck! As I keep working my characters start to develop page after page they start to take on their own personality. That boring dialogue that I start off with it is the first layer of what is happening in my story. It is the building blocks of this entire new world I'm building.

This was a huge issue I had when writing my first book. I wanted the first draft to be perfect! I wanted it to be the best it could be right off the bat. Wrong. I was a perfectionist as I wrote. I would write and notice it was different then I had written before so I would go back and try to fix it. This is probably the worst thing I could have done.

It took me years to write the first draft (of my first book). Now I'm on my fourth chapter (of my new book) and it hasn't even been two weeks. For me this is amazing! I am so proud. I don't regret how I did my first book because I learned so much! I learned more writing that first book, figuring out my voice, the point of the entire series, how to make the puzzle pieces work all together at the end. I learned this through practice, yes reading blogs helped point out my problems but it was the failure that truly taught me.

I know that when it's time to start editing the flaws of my book will really be revealed and that's good! There is a tone of substance in it now. Next I'll have to add all the details that makes words on a page turn into a movie in your head. I'll really go after distinguishing my characters. Their personalities, their mannerisms, their emotions, and of course how they change over the course of the book. 

So much work but so much fun! 

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