#it works for me !!

[notolux]

Yes. Thank you. I tore myself up for years because I was the edit as I go type but forced myself not to be. When I learned Victoria Schwab, my absolute favourite author, edits as she goes it kind of gave me permission to do the same.

I don't move on from a chapter until I feel it's complete. It has made the writing of my current draft slow, and I know I'm not going to hit my self-set deadline. Even after a decade of writing and I'm still figuring out my own process and how much time I actually need to give myself.

So, yeah, your process is completely your own. Do whatever works best for you.

Why I Edit As I Write (Even Though Everyone Says Not To)

hi. it's me. the writer who edits mid-sentence. the writer who literally cannot move on from chapter one until chapter one feels right. the writer who rewrites the same paragraph fourteen times before letting themselves move to the next. yes i've seen every single "just write, fix it later" post. yes, i love the idea of messy first drafts. and no i will not be changing

okay so listen everyone, here's the thing: i DON'T think editing as you go is inherently bad. it's only bad advice when people try to universalize it. writing process is personal. maybe for you it's a fast draft in November and editing in february. maybe for me it's hyper-fixating on every single sentence until the scene flows like water and then moving on with peace in my soul. BOTH ARE VALID. BOTH CAN WORK. both get the book done.

people love to say "don't edit while you draft" because, yeah perfectionism can slow you down. listen, i'm not editing for perfection, im editing for immersion. i need to feel like i'm inside the story or I'LL SPIRAL! if i know the voice is off, pacing is weird, or the character feels flat, i can't pretend i don't see it and continue. i can't push through. my brain physically will NOT LET ME!

when something sounds wrong or looks wrong, it breaks the spell. it kicks me out of the scene like a bad special effects in a movie. no seriously!! and once i'm out it's really hard pt get back in.

also, i'm gonna be real, i hate the feeling of finishing a draft and knowing the entire thing is a flaming wreck i now have to sift through. i HATE that feeling. it makes me never want to open that doc again. i need to be able to re-read my work and go, "okay yeah, this slaps a little." that's how i keep going. a little dopamine hit every few pages. if you call that toxic? i call it necessary.

side notes: there's a weird gatekeeping vibe around speed in the writing world. people act like if you're not cranking out 50k in 30 days, you're "not disciplined." but i'd argue that forcing yourself to write in a way that actively hurts your process isn't discipline. it's sabotage. if editing as i go keeps me working on a project long-term, keeps me engaged, keeps be BELIEVING in it, then it's a valid method

my best scenes? the ones i took slow. the ones i sculpted sentence by sentence. the ones i paused to read out loud, rework, and reimagine until the tension finally clicked. yeah it took hours. yeah it was annoying. but that scene still holds. it still makes me feel something. and that’s worth more to me than blasting through 10k of filler.

edit while you write. reread the last paragraph twelve times. fix that one clunky sentence before you let yourself go on. obsess a little. it’s fine.

rin t.

[sanjarka]

burdock so in love with asterid all his friends know... burdock holding down haymitch from the fire... burdock singing the old therebefore... burdock not wanting to give up on haymitch... burdock coming out of the mist to guide him to the grave... burdock you love of my life.

[pinkbirddiaries]

I just learned that ppl have been referring to me as Pink

So I’m adding that to the list of names that I’ll respond to

[thebroccolination]

[incorrect thamepo quotes]

dylan: my man can pitch a tent.

nano: :’)

po: does he realize what he just—

nano: shhh. stay in your lane, phi. :’)

[callixton]

that post about being really careful abt writing in present tense bc you can never go back..... i am literally fucked for the rest of forever it is the only tense i can write in

[mimiyanna]

Emotions sure are a funny thing

[mythals-whore]

I have this horrible way of being petty where I am the only one who knows I am being petty.

[crowing-around9]

anytime i don’t feel like doing my gaelic lessons i imagine mr andrew hozier byrne holding a gun to my head demanding that i learn

[maddennfl86]

Richard Madden at the ‘Une Promesse' photo call on September 4, 2013 in Venice. 💫

[marmot-bee-person]

CHAT I FIGURED SOMETHING OUT

if someone says like they're going to check that you've done something or you have to come and show them that it's done and they clearly don't expect you to have it done, you just gotta imagine the look on their face if you have it done and it's EXCELLENT motivation

[jerichoes]

found some heinrix romance screenshots and i forgot how insane it made me feel. once this datv playthrough is done, we ride straight into warp

[dr-amnesia]

tip for shower dysphoria: will wood at top volume /hj

[jewelzcullen]

Headcanon: In this moment, Arthur wakes up from his purgatory, musical fever dream. ALIVE. And embraced as Joker. ✨💭

[poppeeta]

I write one or two sentences. Check discord, check tumblr, check youtube music, and then write one sentence more. I erase half of it and then go back to checking all the sites again. Productivity who?

[violant-apologia]

i just realised that i've finished my vials of tears of the bazaar grind, which means i can rejig my railway board from being a machine that prints airag into something more true to briar.

but... i've kinda come to enjoy having the widow on the board??? it would feel wrong if she wasn't there. maybe she was a mentor figure to the apologist when he was a player in the underworld of london, and he still feels a measure of attachment to her despite their now vastly differing positions and outlooks.

hang on let me go change who i make toasts to