How to not lose your mind while editing

Bernadette Benda


Editing a novel. How shall I describe it?



Editing is like polishing silver, except with a blindfold, and the blindfold is on fire, and you are banging your head against a wall trying to put the flames out while still polishing the silver.





giphy (28) pretty much how it is



But it’s all worth it. I promise. (I really, really, really promise the editing is worth it).



But how – how do you not lose your mind while editing?? I got a few tips…they may be helpful…



*grins and shrugs*



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Write clear and concise notes.



This probably depends on your editing process…but if you’re like me, you take a lot of notes. A LOT.



As I have mentioned before on this blog, I am notorious for leaving undecipherable notes that make no sense to me or anyone else that Elrond himself would not be able to decipher. Or, I write notes…


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Published on November 09, 2017 15:25
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