Let Me Read Your First Draft(Part 3)

The Final Moments of Finishing the First Draft(How was it for you?)

by Coolarts223/Deviant Art

The feeling of finishing the first draft was ineffable. I would describe it as the last moment of the school year or the final second for the passion and bliss of storytelling to burst out.

Before continuing to talk about this feeling, it’s necessary to discuss about how the process affects the result. According to Freud’s psychoanalytic theory, within our minds, there are subtle parts of ourselves which we are not unconscious, and they dictate how we behave or live. This is applied to writing strongly. Stephen King once said, “Writing was like hypnosis”. For every writer, this experience always come, especially for the pantsers. Before we ever wrote our first stories, we read other stories, and through those archetypes or stereotypes that existed in them, we subconsciously put them into our writing, and they became parts of our writing style. The writing styles then kept evolving through each time period because each person was different and had their own unique voice. All of them contributed to modern day’s storytelling.

As said in Part 1 of this series, I was inspired by Lovecraftian horror to write my short story and accidentally built out a sci-fi world because of the amazing themes which interfered my consciousness from the sci-fi books from the Golden Age. As I kept writing, my hope to finish the draft was getting closer, and at the same time, the story altered itself. I didn’t develop the plot, but rather, the plot developed itself. The best part of writing a story was to not know how it was going to end.

Please share your experiences with me.