B1P Day 152: Not Yet Succeeding to Relax in My Writing – Author Dad

B1P Day 152: Not Yet Succeeding to Relax in My Writing

I’m trying to adopt the mentality that I am writing for myself in the first draft and to worry less about wording than about getting the story down on the page, but I still find my perfectionist tendencies interfering. I go back and delete sentences to rewrite them and often find myself correcting the last sentence of the previous day’s words when I get started. I must stop doing that. Chances are good that the scene might have to change significantly during rewrites, so there is no point polishing what may not survive.

Today, I managed to wrap up a relatively brief scene. It came at around 1800 words, including 850 today, which is progress for me in terms of shorter scenes. Hopefully that indicates that I’m being less long and rambling.

Tomorrow, I will start outlining the First Plot Point scene. By this point, we’ve passed the Inciting Incident and the reader is aware of the threat to my hero, but she doesn’t know yet herself. In the next scene, she will learn and have to make her decision, which will start the chase that encompasses the rest of the story.

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