Today is Friday, on this day every week I edit and work on my manuscript. Let me tell you if you aren't a writer one of the hardest things to do is edit your own work. It's a daunting task of reading, rereading and just for good measure reading another 5 times. Each reading you add commas, make paragraphs for emphasis and descriptions, drop some descriptions and over all thicken the plot of evil you drop on your characters.
None of this is terribly fun. Half the time I wonder if I was awake when I wrote that thing, the other half of the time I think it is magnificent and as good if not better then Faulkner's work. Then I have a critique group peruse my creative juices to say, "that doesn't make sense", "You use to much hyperbole", "Is this a fashion show your writing?", and my favorite "that's cliche." All of these things I appreciate and think later they were so right. Damn, I guess more editing.
Then before I start my latest blog, I reread some of my posts and think, wow I should spend more time editing. Anyone who is reading this probably thinks that girls has no business writing, she can't even use proper grammar. My response: I'm saving it for my manuscript.
Ok time to get back to work. Yeah, editing!
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