What do we want?!
To be published!
When do we want it?!
Yesterday!
How do we get it?!
*crickets*
So you’ve finished your first draft and you’re super duper excited. What now? How do you dive back in with the mindset of polishing this jumbled mess of words?
First off, I think it’s important to understand the difference between writing and editing. This difference may be obvious, but more specifically I want to point out one particular thing that changes for you, the writer. Have you ever heard this quote before?
“You should write first for yourself, then for others.”
In a nutshell it means that you should first write the story you want to read. If you’re a proponent of this thought, then this should highlight the difference that I’m talking about:
“You should edit first for your reader, then for your reader.”
Once you’ve written a story
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