Distancing Yourself From Your Writing, via Victoria Grefer

Good Morning Blog Readers!

Today’s link is from another writing blog that I’ve really come to appreciate. In her post, Creative Writing Tip: DO create distance with your work in progress, Victoria Grefer accurately describes the bane of many writers’ existences: killing their babies.

It’s hard, after putting so much time and effort into writing a story, to cut scenes that don’t add anything and (I think) harder still to rewrite necessary scenes to have more snap. Among other tips, however, Grefer asks the pertinent question that can slip a writer’s mind when in the heat of editing: Do I want a great book or not? and would I rather recognize a problem or have a reader do it?

I found this article helpful and I hope you will as well.

Have a great day my friends,

Zac