Once again, I really appreciate your vulnerability and generosity in giving this window into your writing life. "Hacking away at sentences" resonated in a major way. Yes. I do a lot of hacking. It never ceases to amaze me how my inner critic - the very one who is rarely, if ever, satisfied with my word choices and flow, can then get on me for spending too much time hacking and polishing. What a clever cad, that inner critic.
I find this fascinating. But what I’d really like to know is what do you consider a new draft? If you revise just part of it, is that a new draft? Or do you need to work on the whole essay to consider it a new revision? Or do you save it as a new draft every time you touch the file and then close it again? I also wonder how many of these drafts you brought to writers groups, etc. for feedback? From another slow writer :-)
Once again, I really appreciate your vulnerability and generosity in giving this window into your writing life. "Hacking away at sentences" resonated in a major way. Yes. I do a lot of hacking. It never ceases to amaze me how my inner critic - the very one who is rarely, if ever, satisfied with my word choices and flow, can then get on me for spending too much time hacking and polishing. What a clever cad, that inner critic.
I find this fascinating. But what I’d really like to know is what do you consider a new draft? If you revise just part of it, is that a new draft? Or do you need to work on the whole essay to consider it a new revision? Or do you save it as a new draft every time you touch the file and then close it again? I also wonder how many of these drafts you brought to writers groups, etc. for feedback? From another slow writer :-)