Slow-cooking a First Draft
“Go slowly. Love your story. It will wait for you.” -Allan G. Hunter Two years ago I began writing posts in this blog about my attempts to write a first draft. Those attempts resulted in a few dozen pages which are stashed in a shelf together with all the journals I had filled up through the years. Back then, I grabbed a notebook and pen after deciding to join a 5-pages a day writing challenge, and then a one-page a day challenge. Both were supposed to culminate in a first draft in four to six months. Both times, I managed to write regularly for several weeks then dropped out of the challenges because both times I didn’t really know what to write about. Now that I am trying again for the third time, I realized that deciding …