Time to finish Chapter 73. I was dragging yesterday after an awful night’s sleep. This morning, I feel refreshed and eager to attack whatever comes my way.
Owing to drafting Book-2 while gravely ill in late 2016, the story is a patchwork of chapters added at various times. This chapter, the latest, was added 14-months ago.
i won't say my best ideas come while editing, but most dialog grows in editing. First draft is flat, disoganized, and utterly lacking in smooth transitions.
@NaraMoore@crcollins My fast-written first drafts are well organized, with one exception, but subtext is often absent and the overall depth is lacking. Missed opportunities abound that I pick up on when I edit and have a more considering perspective.
When I say disorganized, I mean on a micro level. The lines appear like I speak, very stream of consciousness. The macro organization is fine. Occasionally, I drop a scene and once I moved a scene way later in the novel because it fit the character arc better there. My mind always wants to rush the romance.
But I def agree at missing subtext or subtext is so sub only I know it is there. Miss opportunities galore. Most of those one minute jotting writing sessions are the crystallization of one of those opportunities and how to say it.
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