Share Your Draft Notes

[gloomyMoron]

To have draft notes, one must draft. I tend to be a "pantser" in that I will write pretty much the whole ~whatever I'm working on~ just from the thoughts and rough outline in my head. The hard part is actually writing. Blank pages be scary, yo. Also: Distactions, distactions [sic] everywhere.

 

[anthrodisiac]

To have draft notes, one must draft. I tend to be a "pantser" in that I will write pretty much the whole ~whatever I'm working on~ just from the thoughts and rough outline in my head. The hard part is actually writing. Blank pages be scary, yo. Also: Distactions, distactions [sic] everywhere.

I don't outline at all, I'm a pantser who will, on very rare occasion, put some forethought into what they write. These are all notes I have in my drafts — rough, second, third. I like to leave notes rather than get stuck on things so I can keep it moving along. I leave Future Me tasks to do later when I'm editing, basically. Most of them come when I'm in the rough draft stage, though if I get stuck editing and I really don't know how I'm feeling and want to let it sit before making a decision, I'll also add a note to go check on it on the next pass.

 

[TheLobster]

...I mean...
TODO: figure out if you want nipples

Yes.
The answer is yes.

 

[sirhugs]

...I mean...
TODO: figure out if you want nipples

well, do you?

 

[sirhugs]

I don't outline at all, I'm a pantser who will, on very rare occasion, put some forethought into what they write. These are all notes I have in my drafts — rough, second, third. I like to leave notes rather than get stuck on things so I can keep it moving along. I leave Future Me tasks to do later when I'm editing, basically. Most of them come when I'm in the rough draft stage, though if I get stuck editing and I really don't know how I'm feeling and want to let it sit before making a decision, I'll also add a note to go check on it on the next pass.

you do third drafts?
who ARE you?

 

[TheLobster]

you do third drafts?
who ARE you?

He’s been allegedly hanging around here since the Mesozoic Era, so I guess he does have time for indulgences like third drafts.

 

[sirhugs]

He’s been allegedly hanging around here since the Mesozoic Era, so I guess he does have time for indulgences like third drafts.

I thought that was just why their stories are so LONG
(they prefer not to be gendered)

 

[FromManyOne]

...I mean...
TODO: figure out if you want nipples

I actually have this note in my about-to-be-finished novella:

Male humans have nipples because they share those genes with female counterparts. Male minotaurs do not have female counterparts.

 

[gloomyMoron]

I actually have this note in my about-to-be-finished novella:

Did you know that bulls have small teats/nipples on or just in front of their scrotum? I think that fact would be interesting enough to warrant your Minotaurs having nipples on their own.

N-no, I'm not trying to make cow-girls a thing.

 

[FromManyOne]

Did you know that bulls have small teats/nipples on or just in front of their scrotum? I think that fact would be interesting enough to warrant your Minotaurs having nipples on their own.

I was consciously trying to make the minotaur very strange and nonhuman. His eyes are on the sides of his head, for instance. He can't lie on his side because the horns dig into the ground. (He looks sort of like a Texas longhorn.) His voice is super-nasal for a human (but very deep).

 

[TropicalTwist]

Hey, I finally have one and I made it just now too:

have a stupidly dramatic scene: he dies when he cums in the midst of visions of wheat and a reaper? hood falls back and reveals it is his partner?

 

[gloomyMoron]

Hey, I finally have one and I made it just now too:

In the immortal words of Australian alternative rock band TISM, "I reckon it's worth it." Or, as Lonely Island and Akon would say: "Doesn't matter; had sex."

 

[anthrodisiac]

you do third drafts?
who ARE you?

Three drafts for me is like bare minimum. I'm usually somewhere around 5 or 6 on average, though I've gotten up to 14. Sometimes these fucking things do not want to cooperate

 

[ClintonBrooks]

Here's one I have in my current WIP

write with all five senses.

I don't do this...not that I haven't wanted to...just because I haven't considered it before. I'm still not using all five all the time, but I am using more than one now.

From a romantasy book I am working on in my spare time.

Make sure Renee has Agency throughout the story. She wants this…it doesn’t just happen to her!

From the same romantasy...

Harry confronts Theil when he's first sent to Earth.

"Where are my (two swords, need a name for them. Not Lucy and Mary, but the overall thing that they are called. Like Bowie knives.)

Make them 13" long from the handle. Sure, swords can be longer, but these give speed, flexibility and agility.

Research "fighting with two knives" and "fighting with two swords" on YouTube and internet.

So I pictured what I want for the story, but didn't have a name for them at the time. I've since "made up" a word (Sabada) as I work on a language. But I will have the MC fighting with them at some point, and I haven't written a sword fight before and want to do it with some sense of reality.

 

[anthrodisiac]

Aww, Past Anthy was so nice, even if she half-assed buttering me up:

TODO: Future Anthy, I trust thy judgement, for thou art something something compliment.