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The Anatomy Of Construction; The Second Draft
The mechanics of writing, and how to get published are well documented. There are various ways and means of succeeding as a writer, and we all believe we have a book in us. I believe we all have at least one book in each of us, and we all love story telling.
Things that happened to us.
Things that happened to other people.
Things that might happen.
Put another way, if you communicate with other people, you are already a storyteller. The difference between writers, and non-writers is that writers write, that’s all.
We all have to practice. None of us were Pulitzer winners the first time we set out to write. It’s an art that, by degrees, is learned.
Don’t worry if people say you have no talent, a lack of talent is a bonus; there’s no end of talented people, who not valuing what they can achieve with the least of efforts, ignore their talent. There is no end of people who lacked a talent and made a field their own. Take OJ Simpson, who despite suffering rickets as a child became one of the best quarterbacks in North American Football.
Sometimes we need to be encouraged, and few writers tell you that if they hadn’t used bum glue to sit down and write the book, it would never have happened.
Few writers will tell you about the struggles they’ve had with the concepts of originality and what to write.
These are problems every writer has faced though. The Anatomy of Construction will tell you about these things. It gently leads you to writing, and makes it easier to sit down with the pen.
As the title of this blog suggests, this is a second draft. The first draft can be found at The Anatomy Of Construction. In this blog I lay out the text for the final version, a twisted mashing of the graphic novel format with inspirational writing.
Here I present the text, with the occasional finished page of the third draft, just to give you an idea of how it’s going to look. I really hope you enjoy it; if you come away saying, “Hey, I can write” I’ll have succeeded in my goal; everyone can write.
In either case, this is a second draft, and you can contribute- help me out; tell me if there’s anything you think I should change. I trust, and leave my work with you, both my readers and editors.
Tom.
