You Know it’s a First Draft When…

You know it’s a first draft of your novel when you write the following sentences in one of the closing scenes of your book:

They kissed. And then they kissed some more.

Yes. I just put that in my novel. It will be much different in the second draft. It will still involve kissing, but that will probably be the only similarity.

In good news, I just finished the first draft of my electric eels novel. It came in at 48,615 words, and is missing a number of scenes that won’t be added to the second draft, simply because I need to completely revamp one of the main story lines.

But I know that I’m done with this draft. Do you know how I can tell? I just got to the point in the story where I could type the following two words:

Having seen the quality of what else I wrote today, I’m sure you’ll agree those are the best two words I wrote today.