#drafts
Anonymous asked:
Your blog is so helpful! My question is how do writers know when their first draft is ready and its time to start a new draft? Thanks in advance!
Your first draft is ready when you reach the end of the story. You start the second draft when it’s time to edit the first draft. Let me explain…
First Draft - the first time you write your story from beginning to end.
Second Draft - when you make changes to the first draft.
Third Draft - when you make changes to the second draft.
Fourth Draft - when you make changes to the third draft.
Fifth Draft - when you make changes to the fourth draft.
See how that works? New drafts are just about making changes to the previous draft. The method and process in which you do this is completely up to you. Some writers like to start a completely new draft from scratch and rewrite as they go while pulling from the previous draft. Other writers prefer to save a new copy of the previous draft and make the changes within the new document as they read through it. And, some people prefer to print out the previous draft and mark notes with a pen and post-its, then re-type the new draft based on those notes.
What you choose to accomplish with each successive draft is also up to you, but there are some general guidelines for what you might focus on in each draft:
First Draft - getting the story down from beginning to end for the first time.
Second Draft - making significant changes like cuts, additions, and rewrites
Third Draft - making significant changes to structure, scenes, characters, etc. often based on notes of beta readers, critique partners, and/or editors
Fourth Draft - making minor changes, such as sentence structure, wording, spelling, grammar, etc., often based on notes of critique partners/editors.
Fifth Draft - final draft/polishing run, looking for spelling and punctuation errors, formatting errors, grammar errors, etc.
Once again, you don’t have things in exactly that way. Some people accomplish all that in only three drafts. Some do it in six or ten. It just depends on how many it takes you to get through each of those important stages (major changes, minor changes, superficial changes) and which way you prefer to do things. :)
As I was programming my fics for the week, I noticed I have SO MANY drafts kept (cuz I’m a hoarder, hi) and some of them are from fics that I didn’t feel like posting or didn’t know how to finish etc.
I don’t want to delete them because I am, in fact, a hoarder so I was thinking: what if I post them as drafts?
Like what if I do a draft reveal? Would you like that?
Let me know if you do, because ideas just pop into my head and I don’t know if it’s too much bullshit or not. LOL.
So yeah, let me know if you’re interested. :)
Inktober: Day 1 -
Hello guys! I am back after a long hiatus with some rough characters sketches that I’ve been working on for graphics! Since it’s one of my favourite times of the year, I thought I might join Inktober, especially since ink is my favourite medium! I know I cheated here by using some pencil as well as ink but shhhh!
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10/07/21 • iliad 18.52-54?56? It’s Ongoing
13/03/21
OfMortality,Morality,and Magic… ✨
More of the #KaishinGenshinAU I made for Secret Santa!
Shinichi:“I no longer beg for forgiveness, for I now know that others would find it unnecessary to grant me their pardon when they see no fault in my slaughter. Yet, I can’t help but see in me a monster.”
KID:“As a master of many faces, I often wonder… Did I lose myself between all those masks? And if so, would anyone have recognized the difference when even I can no longer keep my true face in sight?”
☘️♠️
-Bubbly
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This is sooooooo edited.
In what way? The only thing I can see that might be edited are the whites of the eyes, and the jawline. The nose seems to be a product of the nose pulling thing (rly wish there was a better way to describe it). But Idk, Johan hasn’t really done much to her photos beyond skin and eye brightening edits (imo anyway).
Oh btw, forgot to mention this: although this isn’t a big deal compared to what we all know Johanna is capable of in terms of photoshopping, it’s seems the Johan guy blurred out their skin a lot and whites of the eyes obviously. That’s what I was referring to. I see so many n00b facetuners’ photos looking overly blurred like this. Take Bryan Stars for example:
(P.S. I found this in my drafts. I saved it as a draft because I wanted to find some pictures on his instagram for examples of his editing. It’s usually very obvious like this where he smooths his skin out drastically and whitens his teeth, etc. I just completely forgot about it from MONTHS ago until now when I was randomly checking to see what I had in my drafts. I meant to post this right after @johannaherrstedtisfake replied above. But then I saved it as a draft so I could find these example pics from his insta. And then I just forgot about the whole thing altogether.
I’m not hating on Bryan in any way. Obviously this is on such a small scale compared to what Jo does. And plus, he has a youtube channel, so he’s obviously okay with showing people how he really looks outside of FaceTune, or whatever he uses to edit his insta pics.)
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Inthishousehold,*dEEP BREATH* WE. RESPECT. SHARKS. THERE IS SO MUCH R-E-S-P-E-C-T up in this BTCH, WE ARE UP TO OUR NOSES IN RESPECT. WE FCKING SNORT ROWS OF RESPECT FOR BREAKFAST. WE GOT RESPECT FOR DAYS. RESPECT OOZES OUT OF EVERY PORE AND HOLE IN OUR BODIES, HELL, WE GOT RESPECT COMING OUT OF HOLES WE DIDN’T EVEN KNOW WE HAD.
You know what time it is??
It’s shark time
I see your “humans are incapable of pronouncing my very alien name” and raise you- humans are actually incredible vocal mimics with uncanny knack for xenolanguage.
In Star Trek and a lot of other franchises that deal with aliens, the aliens are pretty much homogeneous. Same language, culture, whatever. A lot of the time they look like clones of each other.
But humans maintain their diversity. I think it’s more likely that two alien species would have trouble talking to each other, but a human would be able to pick up on both languages relatively easily.
I also think that, since languages also use different rules and sounds, people who know certain human languages do better with certain alien languages.
I saw a headcannon here that people who speak Hebrew would be able to pronounce Vulcan names- but imagine how funny it would be if Vulcan was an easier leap from Hebrew than English is.
I took this pic back when I missed my ex and now I don’t even think of him
