“Unlocking the Secrets of Revision: What Your First Draft is Really Hiding!”
A five-draft process looks this:
- First Draft: Your discovery draft.
- Second Draft: The beginning of the editing phase. A structural edit to ensure all the essential elements are in the story.
- Third Draft: This might be a second structural edit, where you’ll refine the changes you made in the second draft.
- Fourth Draft: This line edit will focus on the line-by-line writing, cleaning up paragraphs and sentences so your ideas are as clear as possible.
- Fifth Draft: The final proofread, one last polish to fix any remaining typos or errors.
A lot of new writers don’t always have the patience to sit down for writing session after writing session and complete multiple drafts. Practice makes perfect (well, maybe not perfect in this sense, but definitely better). The more you practice your craft and create a daily habit of writing, the more experienced you will become, and the easier it will be to know your writing and how to structure your story along the way.
