“Finish the damn thing first,” my inner voice screamed within the confines of my skull. “Edit later.”
It’s good advice. I should get the first draft done before I go back to the beginning and put on my editor’s hat. Writer’s hat and editor’s hat are two different things, ya know.
But I procrastinate, and I get [...]
14. April 2009
Instead of working on a new project last night, I opened up the beginning of a work in progress novel and reread the first few chapters. It felt like visiting a old friend from high school, even though I wrote it long after I left public education. The sentiment was still there. I still loved [...]
Continue reading...13. October 2008
I think I have an uber-editing disease. I have one novel that I have edited and proofread about 27 times.
Why?
I occasionally get the feeling it is because I am scared to let my baby out into the world, but then I realize that is other people talking. I’m not scared really, I just [...]
15. November 2007
During NaNoWriMo, the most popular refrain is “Kill the Inner Editor!” Now, I refuse to kill my inner editor, since I’m not completely convinced in the resurection of life. I need my editor, see, since I play on actually submitting my novel to publishers.
But I don’t want to get bogged down in editing [...]
2. April 2010
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