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Difficult lesson to learn about writing: Sometimes the second time you write a story is a second draft, and sometimes the second time you write a story is just First Draft 2

Both represent a great deal of progress. They have to be thought of differently to avoid causing discouragement.

A “regular” second draft builds on what you laid down in the first draft. You can make lots of changes, yeah, and end up ditching a lot of the stuff you wrote, that’s part of the drafting process. But if you get to the point where the plot and worldbuilding have been remodeled and/or a great majority of the original draft has to be thrown out completely and can’t even be used to reference in rewriting, I find it more helpful to think of it as a second first draft than a second draft, because you’re basically not in the phase of writing where you’re refining and improving stuff, and most of what you’re writing is new and still totally raw and as rough-hewn as any first draft.

A first draft, to me, exists to answer the question “Okay, what am I dealing with here?” And you can rewrite a story a couple times and still be figuring that out. The next phase is “How can I make it work?” but sometimes even if you’ve already drafted this story before you’re not at the point where you can start making your existing material work better.

And for me, it’s really discouraging to be like “Okay, I’m on the second/third/fourth draft of this story now” when most of my work on it is straight up writing content because it sets the bar higher than “okay just make it exist.” Sometimes it takes time to get the thing you want in existence.

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*sighs* *creates new wip document*

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Is it just me or do other people get homesick from books? Like, you miss the comforting feel of the characters, the fandom, and the world created by the author?

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“And it’s hard to hate someone once you understand them.”

— Lucy Christopher

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*goes from depressed to anxious to affectionate to angry to suicidal to neutral in a grand total of 0.2 seconds* life is beautiful

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don’t ever feel bad for asking me to tag a trigger

i do not care what the trigger is

i will tag it for you

you have legitimate reasons to be triggered by it

and i am not one to question those reasons

so just send me an ask

anonymous if you’re scared

and i will tag it all the time in future

your wellbeing is worth twenty extra seconds of my time at least

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my epiglottis is garbage

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“I love the rain. I love how it softens the outlines of things. The world becomes softly blurred, and I feel like I melt right into it.”

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I LOVE YOUR WRITING!!! ONLY WROTE ONE WORD? BEAUTIFUL. WROTE TEN PAGES? AWESOME. HAVENT WRITTEN IN MONTHS? YOURE STILL DOING GREAT SWEETIE

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i am very smart but i’m also not . i am an intellectual but i’m also not  . i contain multitudes but also i don’t . that’s all . 

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*Googles big word before I fuck around and use it injudiciously*

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if someone were to ever call me their beloved, “my dearest,” darling or “my love” i’d explode

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September 2019 Illustrations  ヽ(• ‿ •)ノ

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