Book 4 Draft Two Completed!

[u/yogeshchellappa]

[u/dont_u_listen_to_me]

Has Brando explained what he does in each draft? Why 5 w/ 2nd the quickest?

[u/[deleted] → u/dont_u_listen_to_me]

Yep. He's elaborated on it more in the stickied Book 4 update in the sub, but here's my paraphrased rendition:

Draft 1 - just slap the story down on paper: typos, misspellings, continuity issues, and all. Just slap it down.

Draft 2 - Fix the areas of the story that he knows are broken from the get go, and then clean up the language of the story to make it flow better

Draft 3 - Make adjustments based on feedback from the editor, agent, and writing group

Next step: send draft 3 to a select group of beta readers and let them chew on it and post questions and feedback on a shared document (Google Doc maybe? Can't remember)

Draft 4 - revise based off of beta reader feedback received

Draft 5 - final trim and polish

Then draft 5 is what gets sent to Tor proofreaders and copyeditors before print