I have to limit myself to three rounds of revision because I have, literally, gone from a 6000 word first draft to a 50K second draft to a 100K third draft.
*grin* That is so literally not how it's supposed to go--and yet I have a hunch that's worked out just fine for you! I kinda love it.
On the other hand, as I'm writing I'm constantly going back and forth, cycling through the story to improve phrasing, grammar, spelling and such as I write so the first draft is generally quite clean. It works fairly well for me though.
Because time has been tight for me, I've actually ended up doing this more as well--which sounds odd, but it means that although I'm having less time to write, I'm more likely to use times when I can't write to pull up a fic and tinker with the wording and phrasing of things.
OPENINGS. CURSE THEM. I really should take the advice I've seen to start the story and then go back and lop the first quarter or so of the story off and start in media res. I have an awful tendency to frontload exposition--and describe the weather. That's gotta go.
I hope your holiday and novel-editing goes well! May they be merry and bright!
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Date: 2014-12-23 12:12 am (UTC)*grin* That is so literally not how it's supposed to go--and yet I have a hunch that's worked out just fine for you! I kinda love it.
On the other hand, as I'm writing I'm constantly going back and forth, cycling through the story to improve phrasing, grammar, spelling and such as I write so the first draft is generally quite clean. It works fairly well for me though.
Because time has been tight for me, I've actually ended up doing this more as well--which sounds odd, but it means that although I'm having less time to write, I'm more likely to use times when I can't write to pull up a fic and tinker with the wording and phrasing of things.
OPENINGS. CURSE THEM. I really should take the advice I've seen to start the story and then go back and lop the first quarter or so of the story off and start in media res. I have an awful tendency to frontload exposition--and describe the weather. That's gotta go.
I hope your holiday and novel-editing goes well! May they be merry and bright!