[ SECRET POST #5867 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5867 ⌋

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Comments

Question about first drafts

[(Anonymous)]

I'm a third of the way through my first draft and it's become clear that it needs a major plot revamp. Should I push on from where I am and correct it in the second draft, or is it better to start again?

Re: Question about first drafts

[hyarrowen]

Tolkien is on fandom!secrets ?!

Personally I'd start again because trying to correct an increasingly large plot discrepancy as you go along would get tiring pretty fast. But that's partly what first drafts are for, after all.

Re: Question about first drafts

[(Anonymous)]

Lol did he do that? Was it The Hobbit or LOTR that he had to reshape??

Yeah I can see it getting increasingly complex to bend around. Guess I might start again. :/

Re: Question about first drafts

[hyarrowen]

He just kept on doing it. I think it's vols 6,7,8 and 9 of History of Middle-earth that contain early drafts of LoTR, and the first edition of The Hobbit had to be retconned to fit in a usable finding of the Ring after publication of LoTR. Then he tried re-writing the whole of TH in the style of LoTR until someone with a good deal of common sense stopped him.

HoME is a wild ride. You haven't lived until you've encountered hobbit-Aragorn with wooden feet at Bree.

Good luck with your re-write!