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Q&A Outlining the climax made me lose interest in writing the actual story

Your brain is convinced it's done with the first draft, which means it's time to start the second draft on the story cleaning up everything and filling up any missing details as needed. Which is a ...

posted 5y ago by viila‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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#4: Attribution notice removed by user avatar System‭ · 2020-01-29T02:49:10Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T13:13:47Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision by (deleted user) · 2019-12-08T13:13:47Z (almost 5 years ago)
Your brain is convinced it's done with the first draft, which means it's time to start the second draft on the story cleaning up everything and filling up any missing details as needed. Which is a new task and one that you have to do regardless of how complete the first draft is. Yours just happens to be pretty barebones in the second half, but that's ok, each pass you make the novel more complete until it really is.

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2019-11-13T07:31:06Z (almost 5 years ago)
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