Welcome to Friday Rants and Raves

[sarillia]

Serria and I have talked about having a weekly post for everyone to talk about anything that's on your mind that you may not feel like making a whole post about. Story you're wrestling with being difficult? Or did you have an epiphany or meet a goal you set for yourself? We want to commiserate or celebrate with you!

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[inkdust]

I think I'm about three quarters of the way through my second draft, so that feels good. Hopefully that means I'll finish before my self-imposed deadline. I've been pretty successful at tightening up the plot, I think.

[sarillia]

I'm glad things are going well.

I'm always very impressed by people who actually go back and fix up their work. I've done it exactly twice with short stories. Trying to revise a novel so it's better is just so daunting.

[inkdust]

It is definitely daunting, but this is what I want to do with my life, so I'm not giving myself a choice, haha.

[serria]

Good luck!! I'd love to be able to my work to the second draft phase, haha. Then again, making decisions about cutting/reworking/expanding/etc can be just as much work as the writing itself, if not more.

[inkdust]

Thanks! For me it seems like it's about as much work as churning out the first draft, but it feels like a slightly different kind of brain power. It was really frustrating and slow at first, but now that I feel like I have my feet under me I'm really enjoying seeing how I can make it better. I had no idea how much I would learn just by doing it.