)Īfter your break, come back to your first draft and reread it, making any changes that will help to clarify your ideas, tighten your dialogue, add extra details, etc. Just get as far away from your first draft as you can for a while. Do something else for a bit: watch a movie, read a book, go to the park with your siblings, etc. So the first step after completing a first draft is to step away from your fan fiction story for at least a few hours, if not longer. But if you haven't thought through your ideas, then rephrasing them won't make much difference, unfortunately. It's another important final step in polishing your story. How about if I just reword things: look for better words, avoid repetition, etc.? Is that revision? Well, that's a part of revision called editing. When you finish revising, that's the time to proofread. It's an important step before seeking publication for your story, but if your plot is predictable, your characters are weak, and your organization is a mess, then proofreading will just be putting a band-aid on a bullet wound. William Zinsser, a well-known expert on writing, tells us, " Rewriting is the essence of writing well-where the game is won or lost."īut I thought revision was just fixing the commas and spelling! Revision gets you to your second draft, your "up draft" as writer Anne Lamott calls it when you fix-up your draft, and your third or "dental draft" in which you check every "tooth" (part of your story) to make sure it doesn't have cavities (holes in the plot, weak characters, leaps in logic, dull dialogue, etc.) and is strong and healthy. It is an ongoing process of rethinking your story: reconsidering your dialogue, reviewing your descriptions, refining your characters, reorganizing the flow of your plot, reviving stale prose. Some 5,000 members of the Ansari community reside in Katra Neel and the video has become a topic of discussion in every house in the locality.Once you've written the first draft (otherwise known as the rough draft, the get-it-down (or simply "down") draft, etc.), the next step in writing your story is revision.Īs we know, "vision" means "to see," and the prefix "re-" means "again," so revision means "seeing again."Īnd that's exactly what we do with revision: we "see" our story "again," with new eyes, to look at something from a fresh, critical perspective. The maulana of the Ansari community, having a population of 10,000 in Agra, announced that the girl has "crossed all limits of propriety" and the boy has "sinned". A panchayat cannot throw someone from their houses," the city SP said, adding police are interrogating people in the locality. This could be an offence under the Information Technology Act if anyone files a complaint. "If the couple had uploaded the video with mutual consent, there is no offence unless it is intended to malign someone. A police source said that a man, who is into CD-making business, told the cops that he had seen the video on the mobile phone of the girl’s elder sister’s ex-boyfriend. Regarding the panchayat's order, we will be able to take action only after receiving a complaint from the victims and their families," said the circle officer. "Investigations have revealed that a third person had uploaded the video online. Kotwali circle officer Manish Singh said police have got a copy of the CD, and have asked the girl and boy to come to the police station with their family members to record their versions. Police said they are looking for the girl’s (whose video went viral) elder sister’s ex-boyfriend, who allegedly did this to take revenge on her for lodging a molestation complaint against him last year. Later some people made CDs of it and distributed it in the locality. In a sordid twist, however, investigations revealed that a third person had uploaded the video online. The panchayat also insulted the duo's family members who begged for forgiveness, but their requests fell on deaf years. The girl and the boy, both in their 20’s, were publicly humiliated. The panchyat, which took place at Naai Ki Mandi in Agra last week, ordered the couple to leave the city for bringing a bad name to the community. Following the panchayat’s diktat, the boy, from a well-off family, has already left his house while the girl, being poor, has been given 10-days’ time to look for another place. AGRA: A panchayat here has ordered a boy and a girl to leave their locality after a home-made porn video featuring them went viral on YouTube.