This week, I spent most of my writing time editing Fluent, a novella I drafted in 2019. I love editing—but it is hard. There are so many possibilities. So many options for each sentence and character and chapter. I spent about two days on the first chapter alone and rewrote sections of it countless times. By the time I put it in a folder for my writing group to critique, I could barely read it—the words almost hurt my head; I’d seen them so many times.
A letter from a writer in the middle of editing
A letter from a writer in the middle of…
A letter from a writer in the middle of editing
This week, I spent most of my writing time editing Fluent, a novella I drafted in 2019. I love editing—but it is hard. There are so many possibilities. So many options for each sentence and character and chapter. I spent about two days on the first chapter alone and rewrote sections of it countless times. By the time I put it in a folder for my writing group to critique, I could barely read it—the words almost hurt my head; I’d seen them so many times.