Second Time Lucky

Second Time Lucky

So you mentally pay yourself by the hour. You have no time to revise and so ship it with the cursory spell-check.

Big mistake.

Some of your best work could be when you spare your work a second glance. Perhaps, you wrote without planning, or worse, thinking? Perhaps, there was more to say in less time? Perhaps there was a need to edit, sometimes by a big margin?

Yes, yesterday’s post was about earning more by working less. I did say that. What I didn’t say was that speed in writing could slow progress if it wasn’t edited on time. Work when the flow of thought is good, for that means a better thought through process.

So you have it all pat? Don’t forget to put it away for a couple of hours and come back with an interesting headline and more fine-tuning.

Don’t perfect your art. No one can, although you might try.

That’s how I do it. How about you? Is yours a perfect work of art? How do you edit or do you ship on the first run? Would love it if you could share your work process with us in the space below.

Until the next,

Adieus!