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Rant: My draft went from epic garbage to decent story in 3 hours flat
I had this scene about a dragon attack that was so boring I almost deleted the whole file. Then I swapped the POV to the blacksmith's apprentice watching from a rooftop instead of the knight fighting. Suddenly the fear and chaos felt real because he's just a kid with no training. The draft went from 2000 words of meh to 800 words that actually made me feel something. Turns out the problem wasn't the action, it was who I was looking at. Has anyone else saved a dead scene just by switching whose eyes tell it?
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