Writing in ScenesIn On Writing, Stephen King talks about the first draft being about "the trees," versus the forest, which is what you deal with in the second draft. Forests are made up of different types and sizes of trees. Some are small. And some are....
Alright, so we've covered the process for writing the first draft and now we're diving into editing. I always dive into the second draft wanting to fix everything right away...
Back when I was pre-published, I was convinced that while I didn't have an abundance of confidence in my writing now, publication would fix that. Or maybe just having a literary agent. After all, an agent is an industry...
Just that you know literary agents exist puts you far ahead of where I was when I started submitting manuscripts for publication. In theory, this is how the process of getting an agent works...