About to start the climb to my day’s goal word count. Yesterday I sailed over it, even though I doubted I would. Not only am I trying for word count, I am trying for quality drafting. However, I find the target squeezes a few extra words out of me. Usually I don’t worry too much about what I am writing while drafting because I let it all out and let the story flow. Yet I am surrounded by writers who can do pretty much a final draft on the first run through. I usually need quite a few drafts before I get things right. I have to think things through, assess them from different angles. Sometimes it is a scene with talking heads and then I have to go back and put the scene together, the action, add the senses in.
Retreat total is 8,000 odd so far. I have 52,000 to go and only 9 full days to do it in. Wednesday we are out while the house is being cleaned and on the last day we have to tidy, pack the car and head home. Better go!
Currently reading The Crysalids by John Wyndam
PS sorry posts are out of order. I found the first one in the draft folder.
Donna Maree Hanson, Author, Phd in Creative Writing 
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