Chapter 17 is all about revising and editing both very essential
parts of the writing process and oddly it’s probably my favorite part. I really
enjoy watching a crude rough draft turn into a solid final draft after a few
coats of polish. I really like to put myself in my reader’s shoes, as this
chapter suggests, and do a run through my paper. As I do I analyze; would I get
that if I hadn’t written it? That fact seems like a stretch how can I make it
more credible? And similar questions are common for me during these analyses.
Another thing I do that the book also suggests is as I’m reading I ask myself
who cares? If I can’t read it and see the point how could someone else? If you can’t
see your point you know you have some more revising to do. One very good idea I
had never thought to do was read the document from finish to start so the
natural flow of reading it will be disrupted. This will force your brain to
focus a little harder on each word and help you catch those pesky little typos.
I feel like every time I reread something I wrote, even years later, I can’t
help but fix this or tweak that just a little which leads me to believe there
is no true FINAL draft for a writer, just the draft you finally stop re-reading.
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