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as any good writer will tell you, once you've written it down, there are another hundred revisions to go before it's actually ready Not necessarily. Some writ
by randallsquared 18y ago
as any good writer will tell you, once you've written it down, there are another hundred revisions to go before it's actually ready
Not necessarily. Some writers write publishable first drafts, at least some of the time. Heinlein famously started out thinking that rewrites weren't worth his time (though he still did some on at least some stories).
- tricky 18y agoThere is a mention of this in "On Writing Well" where Zinsser tells a story about speaking at a conference along side an author who was able to write publishable first drafts. Sure, they're out there, but the skill is extremely rare.
- wallflower 18y ago> Practice writing. Write every day. If you are a top-notch computer scientist, you probably read technical papers nearly every day. You are a writer too, so practice. http://www.dreamsongs.com/RPGWritingBroadside.html http://www.dreamsongs.com/RPGWritingBroadside.html