PoB - And so it starts again!
I printed out the first draft for PoB on Nov.13th, with some serious lack of cooperation on my printer’s side, and started the revision on Nov.14th.
As the first draft was, the revision too for PoB is going to be a bit of an experiment. I’ll be digging tools and following advice from Holly Lisle’s awesome course on revision, but at the same time I’ll be building my own process.
Currently I’m at the first stage of manuscript assessment, in which I simply take note of what worked and didn’t work regarding several aspects of the draft, without revising yet, and I’m at 15 pages out of 243.
Up until now it looks like the biggest first draft issues are with world & background: much of the worldbuilding is improvised on the go, and there’s a serious lack of sensory details here and there. I’m finding characters interesting and convincing though, apart from a couple of passages where I was clearly beating around the bush. But weird enough, I’m not cringing at the mistakes and sloppy writing: I know that such is the way of first draft, and overall, I must say I like reading it, and I enjoy the whole assessment process. Let’s hope it lasts!
