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Lecture 21

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on. But sooner or later, you will have a completed draft, and you’ll
have to start worrying about whether or not the whole thing works. In this
lecture and the next one, we’ll talk about working with the narrative as a
whole. The next lecture covers the process of revision, but as we’ll discover,
that process is closely linked with the process of composition. In this lecture,
then, we’ll talk about composing drafts. We’ll begin with the pros and cons
of writing the whole narrative out from beginning to end before you start
changing it.

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even supposed to be very good.

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byproduct of the creative process; it’s a necessity. Think of writing a
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scene, without necessarily knowing what comes next or how it turns out.