Thursday, February 9, 2012

Revise.

Do you know what the hardest part of writing is, for me? Revising.
It always has been.
I have no trouble cranking out a first draft. Luckily, I never really struggle with "writer's block". And it feels so good getting the words out onto the page; shaping the story I've created in my head into a block of text.
But revising is tough. Revising makes me doubt myself. I read through a paragraph I thought was amazing as I was writing it and suddenly, it seems only mediocre.
Revising gets me down, sometimes. But that probably means that it's the part of the writing process I need to work on most.
I've been told that questioning your own work is a mark of a good writer. Let's hope that's true.

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