Open Thread: Oracle Hotline

[mithen]

How many drafts of your current WiP do you have?

With Google Docs I think it's hard to keep track of draft numbers, everything is very fluid. Though I think by any measure I'm on my first draft, really. Once I'm done (and have re-written the first chapter) I'll hand it over for a serious editing process, I hope! How about you, how often do you re-write and make drafts?

Comments

[svgurl]

Not sure, since I write on Google Docs too and I usually just keep going back while I'm writing to edit. My current WIP is my Clois role reversal fic and I would go with two there because I started it writing Lois's childhood and going from there but I felt there was too much summarizing so I left it and started over, this time beginning with her as an adult getting the Daily Planet job. It was easier to write and I was able to squeeze some of those old scenes in a flashback/references.

[mithen]

Right? The idea of a "draft" seems kind of old-fashioned!

Oh, that seems like a really good example of editing and shifting things around--like you, I tend to start at the chronological beginning, but flashbacks are so much fun to slip in at just the right places too!