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I've never rewritten an entire manuscript. I write a section, then go back over it and rewrite that part at least once, though it is usually two or three times. Then I move on. My first novel came to me so quickly, I was writing four chapters at a time before I could stop and edit them, but that hasn't happened again.
The hard part for me comes after I've finished a complete draft. I've worked incrementally on drafts for years, finding weak points and improving them, but I haven't deconstructed one entirely. Editing has proved to be as difficult, or more so, than writing.
I've found I'm not as skilled as many others at setting the scene. My descriptive sections often need to be expanded, since I focus so much on interaction between characters and everything else suffers. And I often have to apply the KISS principle, few people want to look up words just to figure out what I'm talking about.
The hard part for me comes after I've finished a complete draft. I've worked incrementally on drafts for years, finding weak points and improving them, but I haven't deconstructed one entirely. Editing has proved to be as difficult, or more so, than writing.
I've found I'm not as skilled as many others at setting the scene. My descriptive sections often need to be expanded, since I focus so much on interaction between characters and everything else suffers. And I often have to apply the KISS principle, few people want to look up words just to figure out what I'm talking about.
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