brynprocrastinates:elumish:Don’t think of rewriting as needing to suddenly make a story perfect,...

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elumish:

Don’t think of rewriting as needing to suddenly make a story perfect, particularly when going from the first draft to the second. You can keep entire chunks of text from a previous version. You can make notes in your second draft, or your third, or your fourth. It’s okay to note that a line is awkward and then move on, or to make a note that you need to add a scene but not write it yet. Writing is a process, and you don’t need to get it all in one try.

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