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The Heed for Speed

6/14/2014

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I recently listened to a podcast called "Fiction School."  The three hosts went over how fast each of them write.  Two of them would write a rather quick first draft knowing they would always go back and fix it, whereas the other person wrote just like I do; slow but with the intent of making this a one draft only.  I fix things along the way, carefully choosing my words.  Obviously I give it a day or two, read the whole thing again changing small things here and there, and look for inconsistencies or areas where perhaps I didn't convey an idea as well as I thought I did, but for the most part, when I write the last sentence the story is done. 

One of the hosts talked about how freeing it is to write fast knowing you can always go back.  I understand how that could be very liberating, but I'm not sure I know how to do it.  There's always that lingering sentence I just passed that I know full well needs to be tweaked, and will I remember to reconstruct it later exactly the way I want it written right now?

This new story I'm working on has a deadline of the end of next month.  Honestly, I have plenty of time.  I know exactly where the story is headed right down to the last sentence.  It's just a matter o
f writing it and making it sing.  The other night I tried writing fast paced and I found myself at a standstill.  After a paragraph nothing would come out.  I'm not sure if it's because I was deliberately trying to change something that didn't feel natural to me or if perhaps I genuinely had writer's block. 

I like the idea of summoning a first draft so quickly and remodeling it later, but then again perhaps it's just not my style.  That's what my wife says anyway: "Write like you."


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