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knivesout · 28th March 2005, 11:23 AM

Don't try to edit too much until you've finished the story, or a good chunk of it. I know people who never do take their ideas through because they get stuck in trying to get every word and comma just right when they're still just a paragraph in or so in. Write the whole damn thing, or a substantial chunk, with a clear of idea of what lies ahead, before getting into your first edit.

I'm concentrating on shorter pieces now (within 1,000 words) and I find that I either write the whole thing in one sitting, or sometimes two, and only then go back to edit it.

I tried writing longer stuff for a quite a while, but I find the short-short feels like my natural register, and am now exploring it as fully as I can. Not everyone writes the same, and it's important to find what comes nautrally, and then work on building from there. I think.

28th March 2005, 11:23 AM	#3 (permalink)
knivesout cheap,flashy little crook Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 2,999	Re: First Chapter/Paragraph/sentance/word. Don't try to edit too much until you've finished the story, or a good chunk of it. I know people who never do take their ideas through because they get stuck in trying to get every word and comma just right when they're still just a paragraph in or so in. Write the whole damn thing, or a substantial chunk, with a clear of idea of what lies ahead, before getting into your first edit. I'm concentrating on shorter pieces now (within 1,000 words) and I find that I either write the whole thing in one sitting, or sometimes two, and only then go back to edit it. I tried writing longer stuff for a quite a while, but I find the short-short feels like my natural register, and am now exploring it as fully as I can. Not everyone writes the same, and it's important to find what comes nautrally, and then work on building from there. I think.