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\nNaNoWriMo is the time of the year when we word <\/span>vomit our first drafts but I relish the coming time when I can smooth out that rough draft and shape it into something more cohesive. NaNoWriMo helps me speed through the initial messy beginning, but here\u2019s why I love the second draft.<\/span>
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\n1.) You Already Have Blueprint with the First Draft – <\/span>In the first draft (at least for me) despite all of my planning and my love for pantsing certain sections of the story there\u2019s a lot of \u201cUhhhhhh what are the characters supposed to be doing?\u201d moments where promptly afterward I chat up one of my friends <\/span>go get me out the hole.<\/span>
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<\/span> In second drafts you\u2019ve already got the main base of story finished, so you have something build off of and writing usually goes faster for me because of that. <\/span>
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\n2.) You Have the Satisfaction of Smoothing Out that Clunky Prose –<\/span> My prose is crap in first drafts. I sometimes omit describing things cause I just want to move on or describe for paragraphs. My character movements are often super generic and I have people swallow, shrug, and frown at least fifty times. Though I don\u2019t hone everything in my second drafts, my prose is usually all around way more palatable and I just get a satisfying feeling from doing that. <\/span>
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\n3.) Elements You Touched on in the First Draft Can Expand –<\/span> I write short first drafts then expand in my second drafts which I really enjoy because often things that I just brush over really flesh out in the second draft when I slow down and take more time to really ponder them. Like in my second draft for Silver Hood, I expanded way more with little tidbits of backstory in the point of views. It really fleshes out and personalized the POVs. <\/span>
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\nWhich do you like to write more? First drafts or second drafts and why? Have you participated in NaNoWriMo before?<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n


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