Advise to Revise.

I love revising my work. For me, the hardest part about writing is getting all of my ideas  down into some sort of cohesive plot.  Granted, like all writers, I can get too attached to a phrase or scene which make it hard to edit. That is why I make a new save file for every time I edit something. It is easier for me to cut things out as long as I know they aren't gone permanently. Writer's Digest has a good article about revision. However, the thing that helps me the most is when I take a step back from it. I have to be able to see my work from an objective point of view. However, if I wait too long, I have a tendency to lose my enthusiasm for the piece and then I give up on it altogether.

Blog With a Blog

I like blogging, but I don't actually putting my fiction on it. I'm very self conscious about my work. The only time I  share anything with anyone is when I am in a class and I am forced to. I prefer to use blogging in a more abstract way. This blog is obviously for class, but on my personal blog, I tend to ramble about random things.

Although I don't use it for such, I can see the benefits of using a blog to get work out there. I just don't think that I am quite ready to have an uncontrolled audience see my work. I think that is also the reason why I haven't seriously sent out my work to get published. In the words of Marty McFly, "I don't think I could handle that kind of rejection." Well, not yet, at least.