First Draft Metaphors

[wordsrmylife]

I somehow managed to churn out 3,000 plus words of marble, on top of meeting my weekly paying deadline. Better still, I've sketched out the rest of the book, or at least what I think it will be.

At some time over the past day or so, I've also come up with a new metaphor for this first draft: big, baggy pants. Not the full-legged linen kind that

Comments

[olmue]

Sounds like you're making great progress!

And yes--while it still means a great deal of revision, I think it's easier to tuck in and trim away stuff you've already got than to cough up more once you're "done."

[wordsrmylife]

lurban is the only person I know who successfully expands. I think for most of us, the saggy butt is part of the world-building process.

[philia_fan]

I usually write bare-bones first drafts and have to expand. Though a lot of this depends on your definition of first draft. By the time I have a finished draft, it's usually the tenth or so draft of most of the pieces.

[philia_fan]

A friend of mine says she doesn't write a first draft, she writes a first bog -- and then she was to slog around in it looking for the the path. I can relate to that one. Baggy pants sounds like a much easier thing to revise. Go you!

[wordsrmylife]

While I can relate to searching for a path through the bog, if I thought too much about that analogy, I think I'd be worried about wandering endlessly--or getting sucked into the Lightning Sand of the Fire Swamp.

[philia_fan]

...and so I do, more often than I'd like to admit!

[jongibbs]

Good baggy pants metaphor :)

[wordsrmylife]

Thanks!

[kellyrfineman]

Love those heeled boots. And your baggy-butt pants metaphor.