So I’ve had a lot of extra time on my hands…time I should be using productively to edit my novel. But then I take one look at the random scenes and all the organization it needs and panic. I hit save (just in case) and then close the document.
Who wants to be their own editor? No one – unless of course you’re one of those people that thrives on the joy of editing. Me, I panic. It’s a lot of work, a lot of work that needs to get done in order to achieve my goal of self-publishing this year. It may only be the 7th day of 2015 but I excel at procrastination such that it will be day 152 before I know it and I’ll be at the same place I am right now.
So here’s the blog post stating that I’m going to edit today. It may only be for half an hour. But if I can manage half an hour on the treadmill (my next stop after this blog post) than I can certainly spend a half hour working on my novel.
Continue with the encouragement my fellow readers and remember that everyone has those days…weeks…where they just don’t want to do something. We have goals though and in order to reach them we have to put in the hard work. So hard work – here I come.
Provided of course the treadmill isn’t the death of me.
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January 7, 2015 at 6:34 pm
mjennings
I concur with Kate. You’re on your way. You can do it. You know, I’ve found it quite fun to come back to a draft after a few months and see it with new eyes. It also helps with the development-edit a lot. It’s almost as if you’re reading something someone else wrote, even if it isn’t.
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January 8, 2015 at 10:10 am
Brittany Boyce
I’m still working on just getting everything in the correct order. I just wrote scenes during NaNo so now I have to get them in the right places – I think once I get past that difficult part the rest of the editing will be much easier.
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January 7, 2015 at 10:27 am
Kate M. Colby
You’ve got this! Don’t worry. Editing always seems way worse before you begin. Once you’re actually doing it, much like writing itself, you realize that it’s not so bad — and sometimes even a little fun.
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January 7, 2015 at 10:28 am
Brittany Boyce
I will take your word for it! We’ll see later this afternoon when I sit down to edit if you’re just keeping me going by not letting me know how insane it is 🙂
Thanks for the words of encouragement!
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