I finally finished moving into my new place this week. You'd think I'd be excited. Instead I'm overwhelmed.
There are boxes EVERYWHERE.
There's a part of me that wants to sit down and cry at all the work I'm facing. It reminds me of how I used to feel during the rewrite process. I would look at all these words and have no idea where to start.
For a long time I wouldn't.
Then I'd begin by fixing spelling and punctuation mistakes - the easy stuff. That process was like moving boxes into different rooms instead of unpacking them. Three months later, the house/my rewrite would still be chaos.
After a while, I knew I'd have to change my approach if I wanted to improve my writing.
What is writing without rewriting? Writing that has the potential to be so much better.
So, I started tackling my rewrite like I tackled moving:
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Hang in there - you didn't come this far, to just come, this far. You got this!
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@Angela Cool philosophical idea. In everything we just have to “start” with one piece cos its part of the greater whole. Any puzzle yields by taking baby steps with a quantum moment by moment strategy.