It’s time for another Insecure Writer’s Support Group (IWSG) monthly posting. Our awesome co-hosts for February are Joylene Nowell Butler, Louise Barbour, and Tyrean Martinson!
The optional question this month – Is there a story or book you’ve written you want to/wish you could go back and change?
Not yet. I am completely unable to leave a story alone. I have written and rewritten every story I’ve written since I began seriously writing. I’m completing my upmarket thriller for the third time at the moment. I’m currently on submission for my YA fantasy series. When it’s in print, I may have a different answer.
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I hope you hear good news soon on your YA sub! So true that we don’t often realize how we might change something till it’s print.
Thank you!
I change a lot too and spend too much time tweaking sentences. I’m trying to learn to move faster through revisions.
I am too.
The hardest part in writing is knowing when to STOP! I’m a serial revisor, too. When I finally realized I wasn’t making my project better, only different, that was my wake-up call. Now, I do one draft then edit and do a final read through to polish. That’s it. Then it’s time to move on. If I hadn’t made that hard and fast call, I’d be still working on my tenth book instead of my 80th.
Fair.
Good luck with that YA story!
Thank you!
Editing, rewriting, trying to learn how to be a writer, and recognise that I ‘m often telling new versions of the same story
Love editing, so much more satisfying than gouging words out of my mind, wondering if they’ll ever be right. .
I love editing, too. Turns out it’s my strength.
Enjoy that luxury! You have all the time to edit now.
Very true!