Editing should be done once you have a GOOD draft. Not ANY draft.
I'm guilty myself - I've internalized too many lessons about the power of editing and took it as a call to edit and persevere with whatever I just wrote.
Whereas much sensible is just to start from the scratch.
Editing should be done once you have a GOOD draft. Not ANY draft.
I'm guilty myself - I've internalized too many lessons about the power of editing and took it as a call to edit and persevere with whatever I just wrote.
Whereas much sensible is just to start from the scratch.
Insight for me: too much editing sucks soul.
Editing should be done once you have a GOOD draft. Not ANY draft.
I'm guilty myself - I've internalized too many lessons about the power of editing and took it as a call to edit and persevere with whatever I just wrote.
Whereas much sensible is just to start from the scratch.
Love this. There’s a Balkan saying about this: “You can’t make a pie out of shit”.
I think it was Stephen King who said something similar, that "you can't turn t*rds into gold."