John Scalzi says he's much the same way. His final draft requires very little touch-up work because he's worked so much through the writing process.
What I've found to be the most successful for me was to write a 38K word treatment of the story, mostly in the present tense with all action and no character development. I did this with Nino, spending a few hours/days between the sections and facing down the obvious plot holes and twists. When I started the full novel writing, I changed a lot of stuff, added characters, but had a pretty sound rough draft that's mostly stood up to the first beta read and is now in the second.
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Date: 2008-04-28 03:11 am (UTC)What I've found to be the most successful for me was to write a 38K word treatment of the story, mostly in the present tense with all action and no character development. I did this with Nino, spending a few hours/days between the sections and facing down the obvious plot holes and twists. When I started the full novel writing, I changed a lot of stuff, added characters, but had a pretty sound rough draft that's mostly stood up to the first beta read and is now in the second.