I don't go back and read my own stuff too much, but there are times where I second-guess myself and said I could have done something different, like a line of dialogue.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Many times I have written something, and after it was published, I understood what I was saying.
I'm terrible at story and structure, but I'm not so bad at writing dialogue.
If you read all the time what other people have done, you will the think the way they thought.
People are always coming up to me with my books and saying, 'You write these things I think but I could never say.'
Now the writing in the head, I definitely do every day, thinking about how I want to phrase something or how I'd like to rephrase something I've already written.
Some people say that you should read people who think completely differently from you so that everything you read and everything that they say is a challenge to you but there's something to be said for reading people where you think, 'Yes, that's how I would have said it if I could have found the words for it'.
Directing my own writing, I see that I talk way too much, and everything can happen much sooner, with much less said about it.
I probably spend 90% of my time revising what I've written.
From the very beginning, I always tried to make dialogue flow comfortably; I always did that to make it seem more authentic.
I've finally gotten to a place where I can say, 'You know what? You didn't think I could do it, people.' But I did it.