It is stressed, and stressed again that the best approach to writing these 50,000 words is to just write, write, write.
‘Do not edit’ they advise, ‘do not re-write’ and even ‘do not re-read’ but my typing is not so good that I can refrain from editing – far too many red zig-zags.
Sentences do not always say what I mean because sometimes the meaning only becomes clear when I express it wrongly the first time, and sometimes I have to put in a wrong but closely approximating word, hoping to replace it when the right one emerges from the back of my brain.
I have to re-read because it is my characters who dictate what comes next and I need to remind, and surprise, myself, with what they have done already, before continuing.
And I hate typing reams of fill-in stuff which under normal circumstances I know I would re-write, would remove.
And where’s the merit in a novel full of drivel?
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