Someone wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets 2012-11-17 10:13 pm (UTC)

Sure there is. But the notion of creating something "good" in a first draft, especially a first draft banged out as fast as you have to do to "win" NaNo, is ridiculous. The number of people who think "I'll write 50,000 words and then start shopping it around to agents without editing it at all because words are golden" is mind-boggling. My first novel went through seven drafts before I was happy with it. I mostly write short stories, and they go through polish after polish, then beta readers, then more polish, before they're "done."

Sticking an END at the bottom of a first draft isn't even half the battle.

Not only that, but I come to a point in every. Single. Story where I hate its guts and want to throw my computer out a window. That doesn't (usually) mean the story itself is shit. It just means I've come to what Jim Butcher refers to as "The Great Swampy Middle."

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