I’m neck-deep in a rewrite of Shaken, so I decided to go to the experts — a.k.a. the Internet –for some advice. You can find some great stuff on google. 🙂 Here are some great quotes about editing and rewriting. Enjoy.
Sit down, and put down everything that comes into your head and then you’re a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff’s worth, without pity, and destroy most of it. ~Colette, Casual Chance, 1964
Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out. ~Samuel Johnson, “Recalling the Advice of a College Tutor,” Boswell, Life of Johnson, 1791
A synonym is a word you use when you can’t spell the other one. ~Baltasar Gracián
I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top. ~English Professor (Name Unknown), Ohio University
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. ~Mark Twain
Proofread carefully to see if you any words out. ~Author Unknown
Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. ~Anton Chekhov
Sit down and write everything that comes into your head…this actually works for me sometimes!
Great post.
Blessings, andrea