Karen GoatKeeper's Blog - Posts Tagged "objectivity"
Too Close?
I've heard many times the advice to set a draft aside then come back to it to rewrite it. This is supposed to give the writer some distance from the draft making the writer more objective.
How long should the writer wait? For some it's a week. Others wait a month for the story to dim in their memory.
Capri Capers sat waiting for a year. Yet the first paragraph made the story come back to life as though I had written it the day before.
But the second rewrite is done. I managed to find several places I had changed before but missed related areas. The characters are more alive to me now. The epilogue isn't a series of four word sentences anymore.
But was I objective enough? Was I objective at all? I don't know. I know i was too busy laughing evilly through one section to even glimpse objectivity let alone practice it.
So I am positive I am reading what I expect to read in places instead of what is actually written. How can I obtain some objectivity?
This time I will farm that out. After all, if this crazy romp of a book can make others laugh, I can consider it a good book and do a final edit.
Anyone want to read through Capri Capers? It's about 50,000 words.
How long should the writer wait? For some it's a week. Others wait a month for the story to dim in their memory.
Capri Capers sat waiting for a year. Yet the first paragraph made the story come back to life as though I had written it the day before.
But the second rewrite is done. I managed to find several places I had changed before but missed related areas. The characters are more alive to me now. The epilogue isn't a series of four word sentences anymore.
But was I objective enough? Was I objective at all? I don't know. I know i was too busy laughing evilly through one section to even glimpse objectivity let alone practice it.
So I am positive I am reading what I expect to read in places instead of what is actually written. How can I obtain some objectivity?
This time I will farm that out. After all, if this crazy romp of a book can make others laugh, I can consider it a good book and do a final edit.
Anyone want to read through Capri Capers? It's about 50,000 words.
