11 Tips for Redrafting Your Novel by DesdemonaDeBlake, literature
Literature
11 Tips for Redrafting Your Novel
11 Tips for Redrafting Your Novel
Anybody Can Write a Novel 2.0 Chapter 7 “Editing” – Section 6 “Drafting”
“I write a ridiculous number of drafts. The characters change and grow through the drafting, and my understanding of them deepens. Creating characters in a novel is like shooting at clay pigeons and missing, and then missing more productively as the narrative continues.” -Robert Boswell
Now that we have made it through the delightful playground of thought that is English grammar and punctuation, we are going to look at the skill of drafting. (Please stop throwing popcorn at the screen, th
When the world was new, the gods placed a serpent deep beneath the earth. Its eyes were gold and its scales were emerald, hard and smooth and flawlessly clear. But though the serpent was a treasure to behold, it carried death in its fangs and in its belly. The gods had forged it as a warning to their people to content themselves with the bounty on the land, and not seek riches under it. But in time the people’s hubris grew. They followed veins of ore to the place where the serpent slumbered, and as the gods had warned the beast awoke. It did not strike out at those who had disturbed it, but began to wind its way towards the ocean, there to spread its poison throughout all the waters of the world. Many heroes tried to stop the serpent, and all failed, until an order of knights chose to make a stand in a narrow gorge: an ancient waterway that had long run dry. They set out snares to catch the serpent’s scales as it passed, and threw down tree boughs to hold it in place before it could