Writing progress

[heleninwales]

Choosing the habit pledge for the Get Your Words out challenge (which is on DW) was the right choice. I try to avoid revising when I write first draft. There's a danger of ending up in the endless revision loop, going back repeatedly over previous chapters without making any forward progress. However, I felt that I was losing track of exactly what was happening, so today I went back and read through some of the previous scenes and did a bit of smoothing. I also noticed that I'd used the wrong name for a character which meant checking through Book 2 of the trilogy and making a couple of changes there. It didn't result in many new words -- though more than I expected -- but it counts for the habit pledge, so that's fine.

Comments

[themis1]

This is why I enjoy the November writing sprint - I never go back during it, and that means I stand a chance of actually finishing a book!

[heleninwales]

I have been ploughing on without looking back, but I've reached the point where it should be just the exciting run up to the end and I've decided I do need to read back over the previous scenes to iron out any discrepancies and make sure that all the loose ends are tied up nicely.