The Craft is in Drafts
MetaStellar Magazine's Writing Advice of the Week for February 25, 2024
When you write your first draft, you’re telling yourself the story, as you need to hear it, to make the best sense of it. That first draft is typically when you learn about your main character’s goals and motivations, the barriers or villains that hinder their success, and what the ultimate stakes are if they don’t succeed. You also meet the rest of the cast and get to know them, understand them, see them moving about in your story world. But when you tell your story to your reader, you begin to uncover what the reader needs.
Read the full article, including more than 50 links to the top writing advice posts, podcasts and videos from the previous week from all around the web:
https://www.metastellar.com/nonfiction/on-writing/writing-advice-of-the-week-the-craft-is-in-drafts/
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