I just finished my FIRST Draft and sent it off to my Critique Group.   (Pray for them)

Yea, just a week ago I said I finished my ROUGH draft so what’s the difference?

In my world, a ROUGH is purely a dump of consciousness.  This is where I don’t look at the screen, I simply type as fast as I can.  Miss-spellings and grammar mean NOTHING – I don’t even slow down for them.  If any of you have seen how I type you’ll know just how chaotic that draft can be.  I have more mistakes than I have content.

A FIRST draft is after I run the work through a spellchecker & Grammer checker.  I also read through the document, to make sure IN GENERAL the words make some form of sense.  This is where I am today.

This is the point where I look to my CRITIQUE group to give a general look and feel.  Can you follow the story?  Do you care about the characters?  Did you LIKE the story?

I collect their opinions and go back to work.  They have the PAINFUL job of reading that first draft.  So PRAY for them.

I hope they give me a SECOND CHANCE (See what I did there?  Clever huh?)