Rebecca Graf's Blog - Posts Tagged "edits"
How My Edits are Like a Main Meal
When I write my stories, I find that I do numerous edits. I deliberately start off with the bare bones. By that, I mean I am writing the basic plot and setting and dialogue. There are few descriptions in the dialogue or of the setting. I'm just getting the basics down. Then I go back and work on it some more. A few days later I look again. It takes many passes before I send it to my editor.
I have a dear friend that told me how she saw my writing as she reads the basic first draft all the way up to the final.
"To be honest I like reading the rough drafts a lot because it's like the meat portion of a meal and then I can think about what kind of veggies should go with it and how you should make the potatoes then when I get the next version I can see where our ideas match and where you may need to change the seasoning"
Loved this description. That is how my editing is. I couldn't have said it better myself.
I have a dear friend that told me how she saw my writing as she reads the basic first draft all the way up to the final.
"To be honest I like reading the rough drafts a lot because it's like the meat portion of a meal and then I can think about what kind of veggies should go with it and how you should make the potatoes then when I get the next version I can see where our ideas match and where you may need to change the seasoning"
Loved this description. That is how my editing is. I couldn't have said it better myself.
