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Is this a practised habit? I mean, when you started out, did you do more revisions on paper and less in your head?
by fillskills 12y ago
Is this a practised habit? I mean, when you started out, did you do more revisions on paper and less in your head?
- brk 12y agoYes, it's a practiced habit. I found that when I first started writing regularly I would spend a lot of time doing constant editing similar to the example shown in the linked article. This would become distracting and time consuming, then I'd forget other things I had wanted to say. So I found it better, for me, to just kind of write things in my head first and then sit down and write -almost more transcribing vs. "writing".
- fillskills 12y agoThanks, thats really helpful for me. I am just starting to learn to write blog articles for my business and I certainly do a LOT of editing. Glad to see someone progress to where I want to be at... one day
- e12e 12y agoIf you haven't [read it] already, I strongly recommend "On Writing Well" by William Zinsser. [edit: unintentionally demonstrating the need for more than one revision...]