Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Drafts

 The first draft was okay. 

No, it was average, but the second draft was much better.

 No, it was trash. 

The third draft seemed to be on mark until I reviewed it again while waiting to go into a meeting and found it had the wrong tone.

Perhaps.

No, tone wasn't the problem. The overall direction was a wrong turn. Had to go.

And so I wrote another draft, this time in long-hand, and that began to click.

Until it didn't, and yet each time I was learning and finally, later that evening, I had a draft that made sense.

I think.

2 comments:

Jean said...

Mr. Wade, is this a typical scenario for producing a book? wow.

Michael Wade said...

Jean,

It's very close for me. I am a very good rewriter and always go through multiple drafts.

Michael