From: kevin_c75@yahoo.com   
      
   On Saturday, September 13, 2014 8:29:52 PM UTC-4, Michelle Bottorff wrote:   
   > This resembles me.   I never revise unless I know what I'm fixing and   
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   > why and how.   
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   > (This doesn't include copy edit type fixes of course.  )   
      
   My compulsive writer experience this week:   
      
   Picked up a story with a premise I liked, but which never clicked. The last   
   manuscript had *three* versions, interspersed, to see which was better, and   
   all was garbage. Then had an inspiration on a completely different version   
   with none of the problems    
   of pacing and better tension and conflict, wrote that, and ditched the rest.   
      
   Finished? Not hardly.   
      
   First was looking for typos and continuity problems. Corrected. Then for   
   clunky text. Corrected. Then for ways to make the story better. Corrected.   
   Then sentence structure. Corrected. Then a last run-through to catch the   
   stragglers. Corrected. It now    
   awaits the draw, where it will rest before a final going-over.   
      
   The interesting thing is that the first rewrite cut the length of the story in   
   half. The next two reduced it by maybe a thousand words. The last two cut   
   about two hundred, and the very last fifty.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)