reading your own work? I completed the first draft of my memoir, and now I'm rewriting and rewriting. I have days when I have read a passage so many times that I glaze over. Do you have that problem, and how do you get unstuck?
By way of introduction...I joined this forum in April and so far I have been a lurker, picking up lots of good information. I'm retired after working 30-some years in information technology. This is my first book...same one I started writing 40 years ago. I have set a goal for myself to have a finished product by the end of the year, lest dementia set in and I forget too much to write about it, or my vision fails too much to read it.
I have 3 people who volunteered to read/edit for me. My husband had the first shot at me, and I have incorporated many of his suggestions. I'm hoping that my next reader, an old friend who lived through some of the years with me, will get me jump-started past this glaze-over spell.
Suggestions anyone?
By way of introduction...I joined this forum in April and so far I have been a lurker, picking up lots of good information. I'm retired after working 30-some years in information technology. This is my first book...same one I started writing 40 years ago. I have set a goal for myself to have a finished product by the end of the year, lest dementia set in and I forget too much to write about it, or my vision fails too much to read it.
I have 3 people who volunteered to read/edit for me. My husband had the first shot at me, and I have incorporated many of his suggestions. I'm hoping that my next reader, an old friend who lived through some of the years with me, will get me jump-started past this glaze-over spell.
Suggestions anyone?
