Back into the pit

Well.

I’m descending deep into the belly of the editing cave again. Draft three!

Confession time: I used to hate editing. I think it was all of the back tracking, the looking at things I wrote in the glaring light of day. I’d have much rather started another project or done… pretty much anything else.

But that’s changed. A lot of times editing is really work–or, it feels more like work than that first draft. That first draft is all fire and bluster, and the end product isn’t usually like what you had in mind. The second (and third and fourth and however many) drafts are where it starts to turn into the thing you always knew it was.

So, I’m excited. And nervous. But I’m working. I’m writing down new words and I’m editing old ones.

And in the meantime, I’m stopping here to share some music with you! Every time I work on a new project, there tends to be one song (or album) that I latch onto, that becomes synonymous with the project for me. Here’s one of the few for this one.