Some Girls Like It Rough
If you ever feel paralyzed by the idea that what you put on a blank page has to be good, then you need to give yourself the freedom to write truly shitty rough drafts.
I can hardly write on airplanes, or if someone is in the same room as me, because I can't stand the thought of anyone reading over my shoulder and seeing how bad my first draft is. I go into an utter panic if someone tries to take a look at my in-progress manuscripts. In a word, they suck.
And yet, somewhere between the rough draft and the final version, some stuff happens that usually makes the story readable--decent enough that I don't feel like dying of embarrassment that thousands of people will read my books.
We all know what that stuff is. It's called "the revision process," and it is without a doubt where most of the action is, much as I hate it. I love the time when I'm free to just write any old crap and move on. I'm a rough draft kind of girl..
If you can find some real joy in writing your first draft, you'll be more likely to put some magic on the page that you'll be able to really do something with during revisions. So go buck wild. Learn to like it rough.
What's your favorite part of the creative process? (Mine, aside from the rough draft stage, is when I write The End.)
posted by Jamie Sobrato @ 10:36 AM
19 Comments:
LOL! That's funny, because hubby and I share a home office and I have a tendency to minimize my screen whenever he walks by. I can't stand the thought of people seeing my first drafts, either.
My favorite part of the process right now is probably brainstorming new ideas. I just shoved all my old stuff under the bed, ready to start fresh for the new year, and it feels so good to focus on something besides the same stories I've read and revised a hundred times. I'm having fun building a story around two completely different characters.
Here's my favorite part, getting out a spiral notebook and scribbling down brilliant scenes at moments in between other things I have to do. Then I bring my little scribblings home and type them up, realize that the 3 handwritten pages equal one paragraph, but that paragraph is brilliant (or sometimes not brilliant, but still!) It kind of reminds me of that furtive scrawling I did in high school, or in college during boring lectures.
Boring lectures after Jamie moved away, when she was in college with me we did important things during boring lectures like I would practice writing with my left hand and she would practice writing with her right. Hey Jamie, did you ever achieve ambidexterity? I am sorry to report that I did not.
Definitely my favourite part is when I write The End, although writing rough for NaNoWriMo was fun. I've yet to go back over my pages, though! I decided to take a bit of a break and instructed my muse that when I do go back, those out-of-order scenes will magically fall together.
In the meantime, I'm thinking of going rough with another idea for a couple of weeks and see what happens. Writing rough is kind of addicting, I've discovered. Generally, I'm not a fan of drafting. What I really like is when I'm about 2/3 of the way through writing a scene and I get an "ah-ha" moment and then revise the scene accordingly. When I finish the scene, I'm mega-happy.
I also don't mind revising, as long as I have a fairly decent finished project TO revise. But maybe if I keep practicing this crappy first draft stuff, soon I'll like it too (for more than just my NaNo project).
Cindy
Bethany, I can claim ambidexterity, but only at certain tasks...
I still have some of our notes from college. They're pretty hilarious. Lots of jokes about that guy who looked like Jesus in our anthropology of religion class, and also that lawnmower man who was obsessed with you/your legs. It's a wonder I ever graduated from college...well, maybe it's because I moved away and we stopped taking classes together. I had no one to fuck off with after that!
Melissa, I'm glad I'm not the only one who furtively hides her writing like a criminal. :-)
Cindy, I'm so glad to have perhaps played some small part in bringing you over to the dark side.
Jamie- I have to tell you that Lee is always so intrigued by the titles of your posts, then so dissapointed, oh, it's about writing. I guess if he wants to learn about THAT sort of thing he should read your books or something.
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