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Do you write a short first draft?

17 January 2008

Meaning, is your first draft consistently 10 or 20 thousand or more words shorter than it should be? I know there are writers who consistently write long drafts – 150,000 or 200,000 words or more, for example – and then have to go through and chop the stuff that isn’t necessary. I’m not one of [...]

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Blitz Drafting

13 April 2005

I type at about 80 wpm, so I should, theoretically, be able to type about 4800 words per hour, or about 19 pages. In reality, that has never happened. I’m happy when I hit my personal high of about 12 to 14 pages per hour. That only happens, though when I’m blitzing and I know [...]

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Interesting stats

10 September 2004

Over on my BIW list, a discussion has taken place. I did a simple statistical crunch of the data from six months here, and you’re most likely to succeed if you goal 25 pages or less, or 100 pages or more. I’ve seen this data presented before, and that’s actually part of the reason I [...]

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How to prepare for blitz writing?

3 September 2004

Plot before hand if you’re a plotter.  If you don’t know, give it a try and see what happens.  Or otherwise prepare yourself for writing as much as you can.  Remember that we’re not in it to write the perfect first draft.  As novelist Jane Smiley said: Every first draft is perfect because all the [...]

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More on blitz drafting

19 January 2004

I was recently asked how I achieved some of my high page count days. More specifically, I was asked: Do I key?  You mean type it in, right?  Of course.  I haven’t bothered to train my speech recognition program yet – apparently, I sound drunk because it misunderstands almost everything, and that was after I [...]

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On blitz drafting . . .

18 January 2004

My record so far is 62 in a 24 hour period.  That’s what I want to beat!!! Okay, look, I’ve only reached that once, and before that, my record was 55 – but that happened only a month or so ago.  Before that?  I have no idea.  Possibly 25 or something along those lines.  It’s [...]

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Writing without editing. Also known as Blitz-drafting.

24 February 2002

This was difficult for me, but I figured out a way to train myself to do it. It sounds hokey (I don’t know how to spell that word – never seen it in print before – but I think you all will probably know what I mean) but it worked. I sat down in front [...]

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