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I feel like Tarantino is the perfect example of the shitty first draft. His older films were just...tight, for lack of a better word. They were dense, every sec
by blacktriangle 6y ago
I feel like Tarantino is the perfect example of the shitty first draft. His older films were just...tight, for lack of a better word. They were dense, every second was relevant.
With the loss of his editor and his name recognition letting him get away with anything, his later films are what happens when artists ship a shitty first draft instead of putting in the work to refine it.
- microtherion 6y agoThe same happens with books. I happen to like both versions of Stephen King's _The Stand_ — the one first published, cut down to a reasonable size at his editor's insistence, and the one he published later, representing his original vision. But I honestly have to say that the shorter version is just as good as the longer one, so I tend to side with the editor here. And Neal Stephenson's newer books seem to lack an editor to tell him they could do with somewhat tighter writing. Cranking out a mediocre first draft and then revising it can be a very effective process, provided you don't get overly attached to that first draft.
- blacktriangle 6y agoOh god Stephenson, he'd have made a much better example for published first drafts, but he's been doing this his whole career. Even the Big U and Zodiac, which I love, could both benefit from some serious editorial review.