My 1st drafts are always weak on descriptive detail. Editing helps. “The man shot” becomes “The bald man with a scar across his left eye, whose father had never loved him even after countless years of entrepreneurial effort and financial success, fired his nickel-plated pistol.”
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Replying to @TheBrometheus
I have the exact same problem - was agonizing over it not an hour ago! I am by nature a short story writer. Fatter writing does not come easily to me.
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Replying to @jamiekwil
I have to remember to trust the process and catch the missed pieces on the second draft. The first draft is just to dump as much raw material on the page as possible, subsequent drafts refine the work and actually make something useful.
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Replying to @TheBrometheus
I definitely need to convince my brain of this. I tell it, and it says OH NOES BUT THIS IS PERFECT!!1!11!!!1! Sometimes it’s not a very sensible brain.
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A lot of authors have this problem. I beat it by telling myself every book will have 4 or 5 drafts with multiple rounds of extensive self editing and I don’t allow myself to make more than minor tweaks as I write the first draft. Trust the process. Document changes to make.
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