One of the important principles of writing is to know when to edit. If you put editing before your writing, it’s your writing that will suffer. Here are some ways to edit your work without losing time, effort and inspiration.
Don’t edit while writing your draft
Don’t edit as your writing. Don’t back up while writing because you think you may have made a grammar mistake several paragraphs earlier. Editing is not writing. If you start the editing process before you finish the writing process, you’ll never finish the writing process. In addition, you can get caught in the search for perfection. Perfection is good, but not when it becomes a barrier between you and what you’re trying to write. (more…)
