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> Every day, when I sit down with the manuscript, I start at page one and go through the whole thing, revising freely. I cringed at this. I've tried my hand a
by stuxnet79 11y ago
> Every day, when I sit down with the manuscript, I start at page one and go through the whole thing, revising freely.
I cringed at this.
I've tried my hand at writing fiction and I can't think of a better tactic or excuse to spin your wheels and not progress.
Revising is easy whereas writing content is hard. I'd rather vomit out a semi-structured mess of a story and impose structure on it through revision (a minimal # of times) than have to constantly revise each time I sit down to write.
- aidenn0 11y agoI suppose it at least partly depends on how much time per day you spend writing. Presumably you can go through the entire manuscript in under 8 hours, so you can make progress every 8 hour day you put into it. [edit] Reading more closely he starts out with 7 hour days and ends up at about 12 hour days, so if the final manuscript can be read and revised in 5 hours it's a fairly constant amount of writing per day.