Tag: editing
Ramble Writing – My Advice to Writers with a Strong Inner Critic
As a writer with an overpowering inner critic, this is the best discovery I’ve made. It’s freed me to be more creative, write more, and think more clearly. Before you run away, I’m not talking about free writing.
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Writing Update: Month of March
Writing Update: Month of February
3 Tools I Use All the Time To Write
Writing can be hard enough without all the various technical distractions or challenges that come alongside as peripheral problems. Here are three tools I use all the time to help me proofread and edit, give me peace of mind, and focus on my writing.
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What to do when motivation is low? Revise anyway.
Progress on my manuscript revision is slow. I’ve got a billion things I can do instead of revise. And even when I make time to revise, distractions abound. Even staring blanking, retreating into my mind is a welcome distraction.
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Editing My Manuscript – Revision Update 1
One project I’ve been attempting to bring to the front burner—giving it much-needed priority—is my manuscript. After finishing drafting it, I’ve moved into the editing stage, bringing on a whole new scope of writing challenges.
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Why I Love Writing
I’ve been thinking lately about editing—about how difficult it is to edit one’s own writing—mostly because both of my current main projects are in the editing phase. In the writing stage, I told myself to keep writing so that I would have a finished draft. And now that I’m done drafting, I tell myself to keep editing so I can finish these projects and begin drafting a new project. Somewhere in this thought process I realized that I don’t like writing: I don’t like drafting, I don’t like editing, I don’t like rewriting, and I don’t like more editing. So why do I still write?
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Alex Sagittarius 