Writing Update

Considering it's nearly the end of the month, I thought it would be wise to update on my progress with redrafting my latest project. I've been rather busy as of late -only yesterday I attended a six-hour assessment centre at a creative agency called Gratterpalm- and so have had to act like a circus performer doing some serious juggling. I've been trying my best to re-write and re-jig and cut/paste my way into a finished draft 2 and I'm quite pleased to say that I've been doing quite well, still getting up at 6:30 everyday to give myself time -though it does leave me pretty shagged-out when I'm on internship. The main reason for this post is something of an addendum, about what I've learned on planning for revisions of work and I guess it's all kind of a no-brainer when you think about it.

As I said in my previous posts on this subject, the key to getting through a first draft is in writing a proper quota everyday to get through it quicker, but more importantly I also said that one has to accommodate their sleeping pattern to optimise their creativity (citing Orwell's typewriter in bed instead of a hearty breakfast.) But the second half of this strategy falls down I've found because -as you'd imagine- trying to re-write i.e. thinking seriously and critically, is somewhat impaired when one's eyes are still trying to focus on the screen and becoming bloodshot quite quickly. This is why I propose that from here on out I shall not write in the mornings first thing, but will now begin to revise each chapter (around 1 per day, depending on the length) in order to complete a new draft -say- every three weeks. So far I've edited the prologue and chapters 1-9, leaving me with just 5 more chapters and an epilogue to revisit. Hopefully -considering my busy schedule with finding a year in industry for next year and looming exams- I'll have finished draft 2 of n within a fortnight!