IWSG: Your First
Thank goodness for First Wednesdays... and thanks to Alex J. Cavanaugh, it's the day we insecure writers come together to share our pitfalls and inspirations. To learn more and read other's posts, click the photo link!
Well hello out there, fellow bloggers! I can't imagine that too many of you are glued to your screens this week, as everyone I know seems to be packing up and taking a trip due to the four day holiday weekend. Sadly, I had to cancel my trip home to Florida (see prior posts)... [whomp, whomp]. But on the bright side, I will now have the opportunity to check out some of the local festivities that I would have missed otherwise. One of my favorite memories takes place on a beach on the fourth of July, as I counted the fireworks in Spanish with my grandparent's summer guest, an orphan from Mexico. This scene will be featured in my memoir style novel (yes, still in progress), so I'll talk more about that in a future insecurity post, I'm sure!
In the meantime, every single one of you is probably familiar with Ernest Hemingway's quote, "The first draft of anything is sh*t." If that statement is 100% accurate, then I've been sitting on the "S" word for nearly six months... and it's starting to reek. I'm not going to lie, I've had zero motivation to edit my sci-fi short story. Worse yet, I don't want to give it to any critique partners because I wanted to at least share a second draft, not my first. My first is literally stream-of-consciousness writing. I could only imagine the red ink that would come back from someone's critique analysis. I desperately want to share it with someone after I've at least made some of the improvements that I am already aware of. So... I guess my question is this: How many of you let someone read the first draft of your work... that very first, steaming mess of words that you just know isn't your best? If not, at what point do you share? And how do you feel about Hemingway's famous quote?
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