On second thought...

On second thought…

Posted on January 21st, 2008 by Sacha Chua

On second thought, the best way to go about this isn’t just another writing sprint. After all, writing is such a small part of writing. Editing is so much more important. What I really need to do to take advantage of the support that I can get from my editor is to go back and start incorporating suggestions he made into the previous chapter. Then I’ll get a better sense of what a good chapter looks like, feels like. If nothing else, then I’ll have a good chapter to look at and say, hey, I can actually write stuff like that.

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