Editing!
Love it or loathe it, it’s a necessary part of the writing process. But it does present some challenges.
Life is sweet…
“Oh, look at that sentence.
So beautiful and so perfect!
Who says you can’t write a sentence right the first time, go me!”
Punctuation woes…
“Why did I put that comma there?”
…deletes comma
“Nope, it was right before.”
…replaces comma
“Nope, it’s a semicolon!”
…replaces with a semicolon
“It works better as two sentences. Ha!”
…splits into two sentences
<sighs>
…removes all punctuation and joins using an ‘and’
The duplicate…
“Why do I have three sentences in a row starting with ‘He’!”
Thesaurus woes…
“I don’t like that word…it feels clunky…I need a better word.”
…opens thesaurus
…replaces word
“Nope.”
…opens thesaurus
…replaces word
“Nope!”
…opens thesaurus
…replaces word
“Nope!!!”
…puts original words back
<sighs>
When nothing works…
“OMG! This sentence is so bad! What the bloody hell was a trying to say!”
…changes order
“Crap!”
…changes to internal thoughts
“No!”
…gives to another character as speach
“Awful!”
…rewrites completely
“OMG!!! I hate this sentence!”
…chop
<contented sigh>
