A question about drafts
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This may be second nature or a beginners-level question, but it concerns a subject I've never really dealt with before:
first and second drafts.
question: When you write, do you feel obligated to keep anything from the earlier drafts in the later drafts or the finished-and-off-to-the-betas version of a fic? Is it a bad idea to only have one or fewer paragraphs from earlier drafts?
And...Are the earlier drafts a waste of time?
My heartfelt thanks to anyone who answers this.
EDIT: my reason for asking is for this latest ficathon assignment, I've lost count how many drafts I've written...and yet I'm not sure the latest version is any better than the one I started off with.
I suppose, deep down, what I'm also asking is how do you know?
This may be second nature or a beginners-level question, but it concerns a subject I've never really dealt with before:
first and second drafts.
question: When you write, do you feel obligated to keep anything from the earlier drafts in the later drafts or the finished-and-off-to-the-betas version of a fic? Is it a bad idea to only have one or fewer paragraphs from earlier drafts?
And...Are the earlier drafts a waste of time?
My heartfelt thanks to anyone who answers this.
EDIT: my reason for asking is for this latest ficathon assignment, I've lost count how many drafts I've written...and yet I'm not sure the latest version is any better than the one I started off with.
I suppose, deep down, what I'm also asking is how do you know?