The Rewriting Process
So not everyone rewrites. If you do please, please comment down below so we can improve our own ways of rewriting. I’m in the trenches right now rewriting my trilogy. I’ve rewritten it multiple times trying to sew up all the holes, flesh out my characters, and now I’m doing it once again, so I thought I’d tell you how I do mine and if you want, tell me how you do yours, so we can do our best writing.
One thing I’ve learned about rewriting is it all depends on how you write. Are you a pantser, a plotter, a hybrid. I operate in the hybrid category. I like to do lots of planning and then I just write, forgetting that I have a plan, I let the wind take me where it wills. But because of that my rewriting process is more intense.
My favorite way to rewrite is to open up my draft and minimize my screen and open up a new document and make it so where I can see both of them and then I do what I like to call my translating process. I take cohesive and noncohesive words and I rewrite each sentence and paragraph forcing myself to reveal everything I’ve done so I fix plot holes to make it look like a first draft but it would be my second. The more that I do this the less I have to rewrite that probably I’m writing so much it’s actually cohesive the first time around. But I’ve come to really enjoy this process of translating myself. I know it requires more work but I feel like I have a better…
