Wednesday, July 30, 2025
Editing
Yesterday, I wrote about how much I love writing. But, there is this thing that happens...
I finish a draft of something. I print it out. It's time to edit the thing, work it over and fix the problems. And I just can't. For all that I love the writing part, I hate the editing part. That's why I earned the not-so-positive nickname of "One Draft Osler."
It's not that my first draft is good enough-- it never is. Sometimes I go back over it and can't figure out what I was trying to say. It's just that reading it over again and again is like looking at pictures of myself-- something I usually try to avoid.
Yet, I've had to learn the discipline of editing. It has its own rhythm, of course, and it makes everything better... but that doesn't mean I have to like it.
