Don’t say Uncle Josh never opened the heavens and imparted wisdom upon you from above.

I have been diligently working on shoring up the walls of what I consider to be a first rate concept for a novel. This time, I’ve actually started with a real outline that plots all the character arcs and all that crap out. It’s working pretty well but it’s taking time away from blogging–so I want to thank my readers who’ve been coming back here each day to see what I’ve been putting out only to see the same old stew from yesterday.

So, many of you are writers, and in appreciation of your readership, I’d like to offer up one of my golden nuggets for revisions. If you’re like me, by the time you’ve completed some fiction that you’re halfway pleased with, you’ve read the fugger a thousand times and never want to look at it again. You start missing mistakes and putting words in where there should be but aren’t. In short, you become a limp dickus as far as editing.

So, when that happens, try this: Turn on all the lights in the room and put on a nice comfortable pair of sunglasses and then begin rereading and revising. The physical change in your point of view should be enough to allow you to go past your breaking point and develop new callouses.

Now, get back to writing, you knob slobbers…

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