For someone who is a writer, I've done very little of it lately. This is because I've been spending the last few months editing and proofreading the four books that make up my YA supernatural series. As a result, I've become pretty apt at revising drafts, or at least I've learned enough about proofreading to …
This week I nailed a writing goal and finished the fourth book in my YA series. Finally I had typed, “The End”, knowing I’d written everything that I wanted to. While there's still more editing to be done on this book and the other three—for now—the series is complete. That got me thinking, not only …
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Whipping a book into shape takes time and effort. Growing something from an idea into a fully fledged story with characters and events will require stamina and lots of rewriting. One way to make that process easier is to implement a great drafting system, one where the first three drafts will provide you with what …
Continue reading The First Three Drafts: Laying Down the Basics for a Good Book
K.M. Allan 