2k to 10k: Writing Faster, Writing Better, and Writing More of What You Love
Don't worry about selling it; that comes later. Instead, worry about making your book good.
Rachel Aaron • 2k to 10k: Writing Faster, Writing Better, and Writing More of What You Love
No one is going to send you off to a desert island to live a wretched life of worm eating and regret because your book includes things that could be seen as cliché.
Rachel Aaron • 2k to 10k: Writing Faster, Writing Better, and Writing More of What You Love
Never put a scene you don't love in your book.
Rachel Aaron • 2k to 10k: Writing Faster, Writing Better, and Writing More of What You Love
Just like you write every day during the first draft, during the editing process, edit every day.
Rachel Aaron • 2k to 10k: Writing Faster, Writing Better, and Writing More of What You Love
So if you don't have a publishing deadline yet, set one for yourself.
Rachel Aaron • 2k to 10k: Writing Faster, Writing Better, and Writing More of What You Love
if I rely on others to spot my problems for me, then I'm not growing as an editor or a writer.
Rachel Aaron • 2k to 10k: Writing Faster, Writing Better, and Writing More of What You Love
Every edit you do has diminishing returns.
Rachel Aaron • 2k to 10k: Writing Faster, Writing Better, and Writing More of What You Love
Sometimes in my read-through, though, I’ll find a few more items for my to-do list. If the problems are small, I just go ahead and fix them on the spot, but I save any big stuff I find until the end.
Rachel Aaron • 2k to 10k: Writing Faster, Writing Better, and Writing More of What You Love
This is my line edit, the part of the process where I clean up all the out-of-place bits.