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As @sesquipedalias says, for a discovery writer the first draft can often be about figuring out what your novel is, what you're trying to say. You say you have story threads that you don't know wh...
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2019-12-12T21:57:42Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#3: Attribution notice added
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2019-12-08T12:58:09Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision
As @sesquipedalias says, for a discovery writer the first draft can often be about figuring out what your novel is, what you're trying to say. You say you have story threads that you don't know where to take, questions the answers to which you don't know, problems you don't know how to solve. **Treat those as a writing exercise** : find out the answers, solve the problems, gather the lose threads. It's a very useful exercise even if later you decide to scrap the problem and take the story in a different direction for your first draft. This wasn't the story you originally set out to tell? No matter, find out where _this_ story goes. Then you can tell another one. You owe that much to your readers - you've promised them a story, and you haven't delivered. You don't have "inspiration"? Write anyway. Work at it. It's like a muscle that you haven't exercised in a year - you're rusty. You're not going to suddenly "get inspiration" out of nowhere. Work at it until your brain remembers the task, _then_ inspiration might come. Treat the whole thing as a learning experience. You've learned _something_ working on this project, surely?
#1: Imported from external source
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2019-09-17T09:40:32Z (about 5 years ago)
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