Like many writers, I have a bit of a dislike for rewriting. Well, not for the thing itself, but starting to rewrite is such a pain. Opening a book you've written a while ago, is a little like biting into a chocolate you don't know the filling off. It might be delicious, or your little brother might have filled it with toothpaste. You just don't know, which is scary.
But now it's time to face that fear. There's this book I've been working on. It's a bit of a passion project. However, my first version is a super rough draft, and I have a list of things I want to change, need to correct a bunch of grammar and just generally need to get to work.
So yesterday I took a first look at my document, and it wasn't that bad. It had the mistakes I expected, but some dialogue genuinely made me smile. It gives me hope that this book might actually have potential to become what I want it to be. But of course, you never fully know until you bite into the chocolate.
A few friends and I had a conversation about writing once, and we compared it to chiseling away at a sculpture, because there's always need for a questionable metaphor about a totally non-related art from. I kind of like that look at writing, though. It takes a lot of small edits to take shape. Sometimes you mess up so much that it's not worth the effort, but some stories can turn into something pretty if you just give them the time and love they need.
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