Finding pleasure in revision is the thing I would most strongly advise to people. It's not something I did as a younger writer; I learned it over time.
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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times.
I'm a passionate believer in revision, and a lot of my writing gets done during revision process. It isn't just tweaking: I tend to break it apart and remake it every time I do a new draft.
Sometimes I can spend as long revising a manuscript as I spent writing it in the first place.
I'm not a good writer. It takes me a long time to get there. I write and then rewrite and revise and do it over and over until I'm satisfied.
I've thought about writing, but it hasn't happened yet. It's like schoolwork - you start doing your revisions two nights before you're compelled to turn it in.
I hate editing. I love to write, but I hate to reread my stuff. To revise.
I guess the thing I would say most fervently is that your original impulse to write something is an impulse you should trust, and that if it doesn't work on the first draft, which it hardly ever does, the commitment to revising ought to be something you embrace really early. And to revise and revise and revise.
I edit as I write. I revise endlessly. I don't go forward until I know that what I've written is as good as I can make it.
There's no reason you shouldn't, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly.
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