First Drafting

Last Friday I reached an accomplishment and a celebratory one at that. I finished draft #0 of book #1. I’ve been talking about this draft 0 since the beginning of the year and excitingly I’ve concluded it much sooner than I thought I would. I had gotten a little stumped near the end, because of all the lose ends and set ups I needed to have the pay off for, but I managed to push through and am now onto writing the first “real” draft. 


The way my brain works, with its slow processing speed and short term memory loss, I had to find a different way to write and plan my writing, so draft 0 was born. It is 26,781 words simply stating what happens in the story. There is no concrete dialogue and there are very little place and character descriptions. It’s an outline detailing every single sene in the book. So for me the story is completed, I’ve seen the entire thing play out on the screen in my mind, and to be quite honest I think its awesome. 


I spent all last weekend with a great big goofy grin plastered on my face because I was just so proud of myself of completing something. A something that I wasn’t sure would ever amount to anything, but now here I am with nearly 27,000 words and a story I cannot wait to tell in detail. 


I stared the first draft on Monday and it was both the most exciting moment and the most frustrating. I don’t write a great deal in 3rd person, so when I tried to on Monday it took me over an hour to figure it out. I’m not quite sure I’ve fully figured it out yet either. But I just keep telling myself that this is the first book I’ve ever tried to write, so its okay if it sucks at first. I can’t fix what doesn’t exist, so I’ll write this crappy draft and then work on making it a great story. 


Thanks for coming along in the journey and I hope to have more updates in future on this exciting process. Happy Creating! 

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