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Not if you are only good enough to end up at the head part....

Your writing is pretty good, though?

Do you mean how people have bad first drafts, or how people start out their story good, but then it becomes unrecognizable?

@Scribbler Closer to the first. I'm redrafting one of my stories, and some scenes are coming out near-perfect - a nice horse's rear end. Then I move to the next scene and it's the horse's front leg. It's so painful to keep writing it...

@Moonpearl How do you do second drafts? Usually, when I write something, that's the best the current version of me can write it. I only rewrite stuff that's months or more old. Maybe I should wait a day or two before trying to rewrite it? Or maybe it's because my chapters are so short. I imagine you're rewriting as a whole a far larger piece.

I leave it for a little bit - ideally a few days or a week at most, so I don't lose the motivation to work on it entirely. During that time, I'll probably give myself a day to recover from finishing it, and then I'll start thinking about it during the spare moments of my day-to-day life. I think about the bits that didn't come out right and why I think they turned out that way, and I brainstorm my way around it.

For example, I might have to admit that I spent too long throwing in fanservice for characters nobody cares about and plan to cut that out or work it into the narrative to be more subtle. I often rewrite those scenes in my head while I'm away from the computer.