I gotta confess a caveat to this one: When I was going through my 10-year-old Prophecy writings, I found myself scrapping and starting over again from scratch with several scenes. Some stuff didn't change substantially -- the Queen of Spiders intro scene, for example. But others were practically unrecognizable when I was done. So I do some of this "typical revising" stuff.
The one area where it's really useful to think in terms of "rough draft" is when you CANNOT get it to sound good, at all. Then, sometimes, it's handy just to put *something* down, if you hate it, just as a placeholder for you to look back on a few weeks or years down the line, and fix then. :)
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Date: 2003-06-26 09:45 am (UTC)The one area where it's really useful to think in terms of "rough draft" is when you CANNOT get it to sound good, at all. Then, sometimes, it's handy just to put *something* down, if you hate it, just as a placeholder for you to look back on a few weeks or years down the line, and fix then. :)