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#Editing

  • Writer: Megan Ransdell
    Megan Ransdell
  • Sep 8, 2018
  • 2 min read

Hey guys!

I have been trucking through editing my fourth draft. I've added things, taken some stuff out, rearranged things... It's been a lot! I think my most growing concern is that my manuscript isn't good. I've been working hard on it for almost two years now, and I've made a ton of progress, but something inside of me keeps saying it's not good enough yet.

Sometimes to make myself feel better I'll go back and read old drafts. Other times I'll go all the way back to the dark ages of middle school and read stuff I wrote off my fanfiction account. It really does make me feel better because on my older drafts things just sort of happened mechanically, but now they flow and have so much emotion (does that make sense?). Like, for instance I have a scene where one of my main characters (Amicia) is trying to convince her brother (Corren), my other main character, not to kill some people even though he is super hurt and lost. In the first draft it went (very roughly) like this:


Amicia: Brother, stop! Don't kill them!

Corren: Why not? You kill people! Amicia: Because you're not me and I'm a monster and we're different.

Corren: K.


Like. No. It was awful. That obviously wasn't exactly how it went, but compared to now that's what it felt like, hehe.

When I go back to my fanfictions, that's when I really know how good I am. You can really tell I'm down in the dumps about my writing if I go alllllll the way back there. That's a last resort only. It's so cringy, and so bad. Ughhhhhh ew.


But yeah. So right now I'm sort of procrastinating going back to editing. But I'm like so close. Like 65 pages away. Chapter 14/16. I can do this.


Wish me luck!!



Inspirational music I've listened to for this week's intense editing: Natural by Imagine Dragons.

 
 
 

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