Editing or Head hitting?
The dreaded word, editing. We all have to do it, it doesn't necessarily mean that we like it. Or do we?
I have found over the last few weeks I am getting to like the process more and more.
Leaving a chapter, then going back to it a few weeks later shows it in a new light. Even though you wrote it, you are now seeing it as the reader sees it, and that is when some of the glaring errors just leap off the page at you, snarling and spitting.
Of course, like many in this age of the computer, I do line editing as I go along. Sometimes that will cause me to lose the overall view of the story and focus on the details. Nothing wrong with attending to the details, after all that is where the devil lives, but sometimes we do have to step back and look at the overall picture again.
Don't approach editing as a task, approach it as a chance to improve and see your manuscript through the eyes of a reader.
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