Time is the best editor.
If you have it, time is the easiest trick for self-editing. Simply put your work away long enough so when you come back to it you can see it with fresh eyes.
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Time is the best editor. If you have it, time is the easiest trick for self-editing. Simply put your work away long enough so when you come back to it you can see it with fresh eyes.
The revision process should begin after some time has passed, because time will do more for the revision than any amount of conscious attention given too soon. Go away from the draft for as long as you can afford to—take a vacation—and when you come back most of your work will be done for you in the back country of the islands.
Kenneth Atchity • Write Time: Guide to the Creative Process, from Vision through Revision—and Beyond
“You need time. And that doesn’t mean necessarily even working full-time on it itself; it means time to throw some ideas together and let them sit, go off and do something else, come back and see what still feels right.”
–Christopher Nolan
–Christopher Nolan
Britton Perelman • Just a moment...
Ideas sometimes seem to need days or weeks or months to get to a point where they feel fully formed. If you try to force a solution to a problem into a preset window of time, you will almost certainly reach a suboptimal solution.
I’ll often have ideas sitting in my focus folder for weeks or months and keep tossing thoughts into them, and then one d... See more
I’ll often have ideas sitting in my focus folder for weeks or months and keep tossing thoughts into them, and then one d... See more