Many writers don't like revising, but I do. To me revising is like building on a skeleton, adding flesh and bones. I love the feeling of adding tints in the colouring on the cheeks, highlights on the hair, sharp edge to the fingernail. Through revisios I round the curve of a shoulder, smoothe out the bulge of a hip. These are the things that bring the writing alive, make is sparkle, make it real. what's more real than a person, fully formed, living in front of you on the page?
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It's humbling revisiting the writing that you did in the "believing stage" and now looking at it and sometimes saying, "What was I thinking?" But other times, it's "Wow, Where did that come from?"
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