Like changing grammatical errors, sentence structure, pacing, execution, adding more showing and less telling, making the characters engaging, fixing the prose, and having the story feel like an actual story rather than some sloppy mess.
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okay so is it that you are trying to achieve all of that in the first draft without editing?
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No, because I am just writing it sloppily.
Though, that is what I would like to do.
hence why i said trying to achieve
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Yes.
So, what now? Do I keep rewriting the same story in many ways or do I buckle down and learn to edit and revise?
option 1: use voice memos and tell yourself the story. play it back. then tell it to yourself again from scratch. keep repeating the process. until you have exhausted all the different versions.
then start going with the flow and writing; picking whichever details from whichever version entertained you the most
option 2: keep rewriting story in different ways until you can’t anynore. and then pick and choose which bits you like and which you don’t and rearrange all the versions together
option 3: treat editing as writing with someone else’s words as opposed to something totally separate from writing
option 4: learn how to stay immersed as the character who has no idea about the author as you write. as opposed to trying to have the narrator present an entertaining story to you as you write
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I’m going with option 2.
Thank you.
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ofc glad we were able to sort that out
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Yeah, sorry for that.