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\"oyan-blog-pottery-pinterest\"<\/a>By Jared Schmitz, Guest Contributor<\/strong><\/p>\n

How do you view the early drafts of your writing projects? Do you view them as blocks of stone\u00a0requiring smoothing and carving into shape, but essentially complete<\/strong>? Or do you view them\u00a0more as lumps of clay, likely needing to be fully reshaped<\/strong> more than once?<\/p>\n

In the past, I viewed my writing in the first way. I started writing when I was about seventeen,\u00a0and finished four novels or so in my first year as a writer. It was easy; I had new story ideas\u00a0every couple of weeks, my projects flowed out like water, and I rarely had trouble finding words.\u00a0Though I had heard that the real work of writing is actually in the rewriting, I felt that I was\u00a0probably one of the exceptions to that rule<\/strong>. I never tried to edit any of my rough drafts and\u00a0thought that they were mostly pretty solid\u2014I even thought I could be published by the time I\u00a0was twenty!<\/p>\n

That was all just fine, until I wrote the first novel that I really consider a failure. It was my fifth,\u00a0and it was called Little Darkangel<\/em>. The story had problems on every level<\/strong>\u2014the characters were\u00a0wooden and unlikable, the plot meandered and petered off into nothing, the setting was\u00a0underdeveloped, the prose was fluffy and melodramatic. It was a terrible rough draft, and by the\u00a0time I reached the end, I was exhausted and couldn\u2019t wait to be done. That threw a wrench into\u00a0the narrative I\u2019d been telling myself.<\/strong> My twentieth birthday came and went without a book being\u00a0published, and as I continued to write and eventually entered a two-year creative slump, it\u00a0became increasingly clear that my writing just wasn\u2019t as good as I\u2019d thought it was<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Yet I still had great difficulty finding anything significantly wrong with my rough drafts. Even\u00a0when I tried to edit them, my second and third drafts would be little different from my first.<\/strong> I still\u00a0viewed my writing as something almost monumental. Not that I thought it was amazing. But I\u00a0saw what I had already written as something somewhat immovable, something that would stand\u00a0for the rest of my life and never be changed significantly. I expected to move some stuff around\u00a0in later drafts, but that was all. That attitude made it hard for me to write new stories, and even\u00a0harder to edit my old ones<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

I had to learn to let go. This was something I came to through three successive (and successively\u00a0painful) realizations: a) that much of what I had written would need to be thrown away and\u00a0remade<\/strong> if it was to become decent; b) that even stories I had thought to be my best were actually\u00a0riddled with holes<\/strong>; and c) that I wasn\u2019t actually a very good writer<\/strong> at all.<\/p>\n

The thing about writing is that it\u2019s not really like carving a frieze in marble. Your rough draft is\u00a0not a block of stone that only needs to be refined before being set out on a pedestal for all to see.<\/strong>\u00a0When I lost my confidence in my stories and writing ability, I saw this. Once I was freed of the\u00a0illusion that I was a really good writer with lots of very strong stories, I saw that writing is\u00a0actually more like throwing a vase on a potter\u2019s wheel. A rough draft is a lump of clay. Soft,\u00a0cold, wet, ugly; above all changeable. I saw that everything in\u00a0my rough drafts could be changed and that much of it needed to be changed.<\/p>\n

If you want to write a good story, then you need to let go of what you\u2019ve already written<\/strong>. You\u00a0need to let go of the idea that your first draft must or can be perfect\u2014or even very good. Think\u00a0of it in this way. It\u2019s hard work to dig out a big lump of clay from the riverside. You spend a long\u00a0time finding the perfect type of clay, shoveling it, carting it to your potter\u2019s wheel. You get very\u00a0dirty. When you throw it into its initial rough shape it seems excellent. You\u2019ve spent so long\u00a0with that lump of clay that it\u2019s become beautiful to you<\/strong>, and it can seem like there\u2019s nothing else\u00a0to be done to make it better.<\/p>\n

But at the end of the day, it\u2019s just a dirty, ugly lump of wet dirt with the beginnings of a shape.\u00a0It\u2019s just a rough draft. Most people, looking at it, won\u2019t see the thing that you\u2019ve poured so much\u00a0sweat and tears into; they\u2019ll just see a mess of plot holes, flat characters, and stilted dialogue.\u00a0When they say so, it can be enough to make you cry. But if you give it enough time, you\u2019ll also\u00a0see those things (and this is why we so often hate our old stories). You must not give up. You\u00a0must remember that it is only a lump of clay, after all, not stone, and it can be changed\u2014it must\u00a0be changed.<\/strong> So you kick your potter\u2019s wheel into motion and start throwing the story. You\u2019ll\u00a0probably have to reform it more than once. Bits of it will need to be trimmed away, or other bits\u00a0added. In the end, it will hardly be recognizable as the lump of clay that it originally was. But\u00a0that\u2019s how pottery goes; that\u2019s how it should be.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is at this point that I began to realize that a \u201cgood writer\u201d wasn\u2019t really what I had thought it\u00a0was\u2014someone who can tell an amazing story on the first try. I realized it didn\u2019t matter if I\u00a0couldn\u2019t do that, it didn\u2019t matter if my stories weren\u2019t very good yet. I found out what a rough\u00a0draft is for. It\u2019s not really a story, not yet. None of it must be in the final version of the book. Its\u00a0purpose is to let you see what your characters are like, to find themes in your writing, to get a\u00a0notion for where the plot will go<\/strong>. Oh, I know how bitter it is to write a rough draft and see how\u00a0the story crumbles in front of you\u2014or to see how it crumbles in the face of criticism from others.\u00a0And I know how hard it is to set aside a rough draft that you\u2019ve put months and months of work\u00a0into. Most of my stories I haven\u2019t even attempted to edit or revise! But I also know now that,\u00a0even so, rewriting really is the most important part of crafting a story.<\/strong><\/p>\n

And so, here is what I now think a \u201cgood writer\u201d to be: a good writer is someone who doesn\u2019t\u00a0give up when a first draft fails, who keeps writing and rewriting, and turns an ugly pile of muddy\u00a0words into the most graceful of story-vases.<\/strong> And you know what? My confidence is coming\u00a0back.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

Have you ever\u00a0heavily rewritten a rough draft?\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>About Jared<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jared Schmitz is a novelist and short story writer who enjoys reading about God, history, and fairyish places. He hopes one day to live in a little cottage by the sea with several cats and a garden in which to daydream. He doesn’t know where his life is going, but he’s sure that it will be an adventure.<\/p>\n

Read more of Jared’s writing on his blog Heavensailing<\/a><\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n

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