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Do you find that you get better and faster at editing the essays, comparing the first essay to the most recent one? (I imagine so) Or it is something like a c
by iamwil 19y ago
Do you find that you get better and faster at editing the essays, comparing the first essay to the most recent one? (I imagine so) Or it is something like a constant, but you just find ways to work around it?
I find that writing is good practice to to get my thoughts down coherently. And with a blogging habit, I find I can do it with much more ease, but it still takes a long while to re-edit something.
- pg 19y agoYou get better at deletion. When you first start writing, it's hard to delete stuff because it cost you a lot of effort to write it. As you get more confident, you get more ruthless in that respect: "This is crap. Out with it." Editing is writing, however, and the hardest part of writing is thinking. I don't feel I've gotten much better at that.