>writing a first draft
>>24935386This is why you tell ChatGPT what you want to write, have it write it, and then go through and change the wording and punctuation until it sounds like your own authorial voice.t. just did that to write a 10 page philosophy paper
>>24935394kys
>>24935400Hm, no, I don't think I will.
>writing
First drafts are fun and easy.
>>24935431>novel first drafts>easyHow?
>>24935416funny thinking i am unique then seeing some jpg trivializing my thoughts
>>24935457It is a first draft, everything is going to be rewritten at least once and probably more than once. You are probably over planing and trying to move too quickly. All you need to get down in the first draft are the important things, don't need to worry about any of the details or even continuity, deal with all that in the subsequent drafts. For me, what is important in the first draft is to maintain my forward momentum, if I hit a spot I am not sure how to execute I just fall back to simple and direct explanation of what I think it should be so I can get through that rough patch and keep moving forward. Once the first draft is done I sit down and read it and take a great deal of notes, For the second draft I generally start with a chapter or section that I feel most confident about or I feel is most important, take it through as many drafts and revisions and rewrites as it takes to get it to a more or less finished state. Once that bit is done I will have a better idea about the rest, so I reread the first draft and probably make a new set of notes informed by the completed chapter, and some other chapter will jump out to me to dive into. Repeat until done and adapt as needed.
Wait until the 6th one to know true horror
>>24936701That is the main reason I took on the chapter by chapter approach I outlined above. Trying to take the entire book through the whole process is the most demoralizing thing ever.
>>24936721>chapter by chapterI mean, that’s what the writing process boils down to essentially for anyone. And yea, it is demoralizing, it’s not a fun experience and it takes way too much time. You’ll just have to ask yourself what you find more miserable: finishing the book or giving up and never looking back. There’s nothing in between.
>>24936728Is your comprehension that bad or did you not bother reading my previous post because it lacked a (You)?
i write like a pretentious jerk and i can't write dialogue :(if i could write like a middle-schooler and then punch it up it'd be fine, but i instinctively write like a pseud
>>24935394AI might force academia to bring back the closed exam rather than stupid open term papers and so on.Put people in a room with pen and paper and nothing else for three hours and see how much they actually know.Expose the casuals who can't quote verbatim.
>>24935386I always go with my first draft. Rarely do i add anything during editing. I only ever go with a vague outline of a story, which itself is subject to change should inspiration hit me.
>>24936735I responded without actually reading your post, yes. >>24936815How’s that working out for you?
>>24936740Ironically enough this reads like something from a middle-schooler, maybe you’ve just found your actual voice.
>>24936841unfortunately i'm still useless at dialogue and i can only maintain this cadence when i blogpost and even then there's a high degree of affectation (lowcaps, emoticons, 'jerk'...), what finds its way onto the page is worse.
>>24936856Well, if you're serious about it, just keep reading and writing. If you're somewhere in your twenties, you'll improve a lot still. The best way to become a good writer is by writing a lot of bad stuff, and I mean a lot.
>>24935386tell me people dont just sit there are freestyle a fucking book
>>24937239That’s how every book is written, fiction anyway
>>24937247cant there be a loose frame and then people can put their dumbass thoughts in as connective tissue?
>>24935400jelly
I always have the most fun with my first draft, but because of that I will write mindlessly. It's only upon editing that I realise just how retarded I allowed myself to become during the creative process.
>>24935386>starting to write a first draft>get a quarter of the way in before realizing the core idea of my story doesn't work>not even a reworkable idea just that the idea doesn't work>this has happened twice in a row nowi think i'm actually retarded
>>24936866How old should one get before they accept that they are NGMI?
>>24937262He doesn't know what he is talking about. Freestyling a novel is rare from what I have seen (at least with published authors of any success). Closest I have come across are a few authors who will do that for the first draft but then spend a great deal of time outlining and planing and so on to figure out how to rework/rewrite it into a second draft. You are going to have to work out all the details and figure out how to tie things up eventually, some do it up front, some spread it across the entire process, some stick it in the middle somewhere but everyone does it.
>>24937499third times the charm
>>24935394Kys fag
>>24936766we have BNHA at homeBNHA at home>AI might force academia
>>24937509If you haven't made it by the time you're dead, it's too late.
