lilacfield

Via start_writing: How to write badly well. Except that, you know, I am sometimes guilty of using too many adjectives.

Saw this quote from writer John Dufresne here:

"You have nothing to prove in the first draft, nothing to defend, everything to imagine...You write the draft in order to read what you have written and to determine what you still have to say...You may have a destination in mind, and you may well set off in that direction, but what you encounter along the way will likely alter your course. This uncertainty, though daunting, is crucial to the writing process. It allows for, even encourages, revelation and surprise, while it prevents the manipulation of character or plot to suit a preconceived, and usually ill-conceived, notion of what the story must be. In writing the first draft, you begin to work through all the uncertainty and advance toward meaning."

That's pretty much how I felt about last year's NaNo. The journey is exhilarating, yes, but at some points I want to know when it's going to end (not where - that's part of the surprise).