With my first drafts, the goal is to simply to get all the words in the story out on the page somewhere, without regard for order or logical progression. The goal of the second draft is to get everything in the correct order, remove anything extraneous, and generally finalize the structure of the narrative. The primary the task here would be to take the "second beginning" of the story, which accounted for the things I'd added as I was writing my way through the first draft, and glue it onto the top of the story where it belonged. But I'd want to keep whatever pieces I really liked out of the original opening, too! Because I often write out of order and it's not uncommon for me to have multiple versions of the same scene--whether because I wanted to try different things or simply because I enjoyed it a lot and wanted to write it a second or third time for fun--having to do this sort of merge operation is extremely common for me in editing. I hate it!
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