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Editing a few days after writing does wonders to improve the quality of the writing, especially allowing you to find those parts, expressions, words that you do
by borroka 4y ago
Editing a few days after writing does wonders to improve the quality of the writing, especially allowing you to find those parts, expressions, words that you do not hear as your own voice.
Reading and rereading immediately after writing is certainly helpful, but it presents a "fluency" problem. That is, due to the fatigue of rereading what is still fresh in our minds and in our hands and the increasing familiarity with the text, we bypass some parts of the text while reading.
It's kind of like having a weird uncle in the family: after we see this guy running around the living room naked for some years, we think it's ordinary, fine, ok: "oh, it's just Uncle Bob", we tell ourselves.
Then we go to college, come home for vacation after meeting new people, lost the "familiarity" of family life, and when we finally see Uncle Bob running around the living room naked, our reaction is not one of jovial acceptance like before, but one of horror.