A True Finish

Posted on July 22, 2002 in Writing

I gave a true finish to Chapter 2 today. The previous version has too few words. It had a preliminary sketchiness that afflicts my writing when I am in too big a hurry to get done. I think I was thinking too hard about the impending reward, the end of the week, and the humor I intended to introduce in the next chapter. I rushed to the end and left it dangling with a sentence more mangled than the road kill it attempted to describe. Over the weekend, I fiddled with it in my head. I realized that I had lied to myself, that this was not the finished first draft at all. I had neither prepared my readers nor myself for the third chapter. So I did it again. I did it right this time.