(September 25, 2014 at 2:15 pm)Keri Wrote: I don't understand how people do drafts? I honestly just started writing, and went chapter by chapter. Mailed it to my supervisor, he noted a few edits of typos and told me to add a bit more to the conclusion. I didn't even proofread it before I sent it to him. I fixed what he said and printed. It's always been the way that I write. I write as if it was the final copy. I don't even know how people do drafts. I would totally overthink everything and freak out.
Congratulations! Mind if I mess with you?
When I wrote my thesis I did exactly what you did. Trouble was, that was a while ago and the computer I used was old for its time, even back then. As I was writing my fixes the damned thing kept giving me warnings that I was running out of room and should delete/close as much as possible. So when I was done I went through and deleted every copy but the final one, printed out a hard copy and brought it to the copiers to get all the copies bound.
When I finally heard from my first reader it was a rather curt reply. "I can understand why you might not respond to some of my suggestions but I've never had them all ignored before." Yep, I saved and printed the wrong one. I don't know if I've ever done anything more painful than going back through that draft with his comments and re-editing it. The desire to already be done was just so strong. Until I gave up one remembering how I had already responded, I made no progress. Finally slogged through it and finished in August, just days before school started back up.
