Rewriting
Finished a couple more scenes over the weekend. Then re-read them this morning and plumetted into deep depression.
Carl's instruction was clearly to leave re-writing for later. Finish the first draft first.
But the temptation is so strong, because I see many flaws clearly. Also a lifetime of conditioning in the copywriter's craft, where we start polishing in our heads almost before we start writing.
Suggestions? Advice?
Carl's instruction was clearly to leave re-writing for later. Finish the first draft first.
But the temptation is so strong, because I see many flaws clearly. Also a lifetime of conditioning in the copywriter's craft, where we start polishing in our heads almost before we start writing.
Suggestions? Advice?
posted by Anonymous at 9:03 am
2 Comments:
Hey,
Don't know if this will help, but one way to go through to the end is to literally begin at the beginning and carry on in a mad rush. For me it means re-writing everything I've written so far anyway, but carrying on with it at a stretch to follow the story through to one possible ending. Scratch and correct as I go, but I do NOT reflect on the scenes, because then I'll never move on to the next scene.
How it helps is that I then have the sweep of an entire play to review and rewrite and the loopholes show up resplendent in their hideous idiocy!
Vomit baby vomit!
No point sifting through bile soaked bolus looking for interesting parts of yesterday's lunch.
(Once I vomited a sausage, I actually coughed it up. It was almost undigested. Stupid useless stomach acid.)
Anyway... get it all out before you pick at it. But you know that already. :-)
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