A Soft Start to Draft 2 - Part 1

Perhaps I put down my project of typing up what I already have for Tree of Vines a little too far down on my list of things to do.

Mind you, the first draft is and will be completely handwritten. To be honest, when I write book 2 or any sequels or spinoffs, I'm not sure if that'll ever change for me. It's technically slower than typing it, but I feel like it puts so much into it - soul, or thought otherwise. I really like doing handwriting, but I'm not somehow immune to it being far more annoying to write later.

Though, on the other hand, that does mean the first draft will be far cleaner than it'd otherwise be. I can't imagine letting go of the originals as I live, but maybe one day someone can hold the handwritten first drafts and still be able to read it in as raw form as it could possibly be.

Anyway, after that small tangent, I've picked up typing it up the second or '1.5/1.9' draft for a few paragraphs just now.

For some reason in the first draft I chose to describe and summarize a conversation that was happening instead of actually writing it. I was a lot less confident about writing dialogue (though, if truth is told, I'm still not that confident, but at least I can actually write one taking place now), and liked to avoid it for later drafts.

Well, that time came! The offending description ended up originally being two paragraphs, but upon writing out the conversation, it's been expanded to four paragraphs! It has a lot more character, thoughts and implications without telling you them.

When someone finally gets to read the both of them I really hope they agree it's an immense improvement.

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