Writer In Motion: The Second Draft (a/k/a Self-Edits Are Hard)

I do not like editing.

I have made this known many times to anyone who would listen.

And I especially don’t like editing my own stuff.

Every time I look back over a story I’ve written, I cringe a little, start changing a lot, and the next thing you know, I’m adding 40k more words to a 50k-word manuscript.

It’s not pretty.

This week for #WriterinMotion we’re to self-edit our initial draft before sending it off to our critique partners, or CPs, for their review and edits.

Initially I was just g...