Even if it's crap, I wanted it to be finished crap, rather than unfinished crap.
Sometimes it's good to think of the first draft as the "crap draft" and give yourself permission to make it crappy because it's all the more rewarding when you can edit and re-shape it into a "good draft". Right now, I'm calling my "first" draft "draft-0" because there is a HUGE sub-plot that I haven't quite figured out yet. But I know that if I keep putting off writing until I've figured this sub-plot out, I'll probably never start. I plan on straightening out this sub-plot once the major groundwork is laid out in the Draft-0.
I've never re-shaped a single story to accommodate an expanded series so I can't tell you from experience how to do that. (Typically I know going in how many books I plan on writing.) The best piece of advice I can give you is to make sure, even if it is the first book of a series, that it has a clear beginning, middle, and end. Having a clear idea where your MC begins vs. where they are at the end of the novel helps too.
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Date: 2014-03-09 06:45 am (UTC)Sometimes it's good to think of the first draft as the "crap draft" and give yourself permission to make it crappy because it's all the more rewarding when you can edit and re-shape it into a "good draft". Right now, I'm calling my "first" draft "draft-0" because there is a HUGE sub-plot that I haven't quite figured out yet. But I know that if I keep putting off writing until I've figured this sub-plot out, I'll probably never start. I plan on straightening out this sub-plot once the major groundwork is laid out in the Draft-0.
I've never re-shaped a single story to accommodate an expanded series so I can't tell you from experience how to do that. (Typically I know going in how many books I plan on writing.) The best piece of advice I can give you is to make sure, even if it is the first book of a series, that it has a clear beginning, middle, and end. Having a clear idea where your MC begins vs. where they are at the end of the novel helps too.