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11666217 No.11666217 [Reply] [Original]

How do you keep going and finish a book when you know you're going to have to rewrite the whole thing at the end?

>> No.11666229

>>11666217
Knowing that you need SOMETHING to rewrite doesn't do the job for you?

>> No.11666241

>>11666229
But why not just start over and not "waste" time finishing the thing you're just going to rewrite?

>> No.11666245

>>11666217
The sense of pride I feel about getting a draft finished, and the fun I'm already looking forward to in reading through it and shaping it into an even better form.

>> No.11666260

>>11666245
>shaping it
But that's just it, I'm having to melt it down and start from scratch again.

>> No.11666262

>>11666241
Because revision works best with a complete picture. UNLESS, you feel your the stuff you already have is pure crap, but if it's that bad, I'd rather start fresh than trying to revisit it into something passable.

>> No.11666268

>>11666262
Not so much that it's pure crap, it just only has half of what it needs. Like having a left hand but no right.

>> No.11666316

>>11666268
The other half can be disproportionally small since elements of an artistic work are rarely all equal. Having the complete thing, which is obviously still incomplete helps to figure out what else is missing or misplaced. Say you have a picture with missing background but once you finish the background, you see that it makes the main object stand out too much, so have to go back and redo that, only to realise that now the entire mood of the picture is fucked.

Writing the second book after finishing a rough draft of the first was one of the best decisions I made, not only could I see the first from a more objective perspective, but there was also the added context, which made it easier to see what works/doesn't and why.

Guess one could accomplish the same with a very rough first draft that is barely finished and then going into revision, but then there is the psychological factor of actually finishing a book, assuming it's your very first.

>> No.11666409

>>11666260
Christ, just give on writing if you're going to be such a whiny bitch about it

>> No.11667170

>>11666260
Why? Just work over top of what you've already written.