When I was reading the book, I wasn’t surprised to find an entire section dedicated to editing tips: focusing on simplicity, removing clutter, maintaining a uniform style, better word usage, more clarity. Very few sentences come out right the first time, or even the third time. “Good writing doesn’t come naturally….A clear sentence is no accident. Screenshot from William Zinsser’s “On Writing Well”Īs scribbled and untidy as the editing markings seem, the author wears them like a batch of honor. They help you get started with an article. It is drafts that help you give shape to those ideas in the form of words. Standalone ideas in your head hold no value for you as a writer. The way to reach a this from that are drafts. You can create a this only if you have a that. It’ll be a way of telling your brain- I want this paragraph to be this way and not that. Hence, even if you’ll be wiping out entire paragraphs of your draft and rewriting them, you would have a clearer idea of how you want your final article to be if you have a draft in your hand. But once you’ve put them to paper, you get a vague idea of what you’re looking for in your final article.
Granted they might not turn out exactly as you had imagined them in your head. When you write a draft, you spill your ideas on the blank canvass. Your ideas look much better as words on a page rather than a thought in your head. Readers appreciate concrete words they can read, and not the ideas in a writer’s head. Without the draft, my article would have just been an idea.Īs fascinating and enthralling as ideas in your head seem, merely fostering them doesn’t make you a writer. What is the point of a draft when you end up rewriting almost all of it? I followed this up with a counter-question: Would I have been able to finish this article if I hadn’t written that draft? The answer didn’t surprise me. At one time, I noticed myself erasing multiple paragraphs at once and rewriting them. I rewrote an entire draft of a 1600 word article and hit publish on the final story on the same day. Drafts help you organize your ideas into words
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It has made me see why successful writers rave about it.Īs someone who has migrated from writing one story in-a-go to placing their full faith in drafts, here are the reasons I’ve discovered all writers should befriend them.ġ. To my delight, the practice of creating drafts has changed the writing game for me. My aversion with drafts led me to procrastinate serious writing for years. The perfectionist in me agreed to this style of writing. You wrote each word such that you never had to look back on it again before you hit the publish button.
You crafted everything you wrote to perfection. For me, article writing was a one-way job you never looked back upon. Until a few months ago, I never saw the point in writing drafts as a way of writing articles. This idea itself puts off a lot of writers even before they start writing.
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