tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14366870.post5807128143310399245..comments2023-07-03T08:50:54.449-04:00Comments on Reading, Writing, & Stuff That Makes Me Crazy: Repetition and Over EditingMarianne Arkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00934613403368823760noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14366870.post-83541476383439081792007-02-26T02:16:00.000-05:002007-02-26T02:16:00.000-05:00I add. Always add. Sometimes a little, sometimes...I add. Always add. Sometimes a little, sometimes a lot.<BR/><BR/>I'm a dialogue writer. When I wrote my "real" first draft... the gut pouring out, mindless pen across the page draft, it was about 95% dialogue. No action at all. My daughter got the giggles when I let her read it. I added a lot of narrative and description when I went back over it. I'm STILL adding narrative and description... grounding my characters in the scene, letting them eat, drink, breathe and hell, they can even kiss, hug and look at the scenery if they promise to behave while they are doing it, LOL.<BR/><BR/>For my first chapter, I think I revised it 434 times. Subsequent chapters are somewhere between 4 and 15... mostly closer to 4. It was hell getting the initial foundation worked out, ya know?<BR/><BR/>Now I'm adding some scenes, plot twists and such, that are adding life and substance, but that's not revising really... and it doesn't change much of what's already written, so I don't think that counts.<BR/><BR/>End of the first draft was 60,000 words. I'm at 81,000 now, and I've got a long way to go.Gay Walkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10307891581085594611noreply@blogger.com