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ABOUT
Monty K. Rue is a Swedish-Lithuanian author who had big dreams but little opportunities when she was a little girl. For years, stories filled with magic whispered in the back of her mind, until the voices of her fictional characters grew too loud to ignore.
She finally decided to write her first book—one of many still waiting to be told.
Monty grew up loving fictional languages and studied linguistics at university for three years. She now continues to learn about different languages in her free time, hoping to one day create a fully functioning fictional language for her books. One such language is Ta’arikin (Tari), developed for her upcoming romantasy project, Project Sand (title TBA).
THE LAST DRAGON
REVIEWS
![We've all heard the phrases "tell the story to yourself first" and "first drafts don't have to be perfect." But what does that actually MEAN?
It means the story is just a bunch of scenes that are put together in a "kind of" chronological order and the characters eye color and name will change between scenes. Perhaps an existential crisis here and there.
A character that doesn't appear later in the story pops up at the start of the story to either throw off your reader or be a major foreshadowing move.
Simply put the first draft doesn't make sense. It's random, following a broken storytelling structure.
But that's how it SHOULD be.
Three lines can be a whole chapter, because you're summarising it for yourself instead of writing everything in detail: descriptions, action beats, internal monologues — no, those don't belong there. If you write those here and there, that's totally fine! I tend to write them too, but only if that scene is meant to affect my characters decision that drives the plot forward, NOT to slow down the pace in case there's too much happening.
And I get it, it's so hard to not go back and edit. But part of the whole writing process IS allowing your draft to suck, and allowing yourself to say "this is trash", but still be able to enjoy the process.
Allow the [...] and [insert epic battle where this person dies] in your first drafts, because once you say the words "the first draft is done" you can move onto a TRULY magical phase: editing (but for real this time)
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