alice. 21. new zealand. bisexual. writer. student. multishipper. avid reader.
WriteWorld: Writing Discipline
Writing can be great fun – and so it should be – but sometimes you will, alas, need just a little bit of discipline…
- Read your work aloud to yourself, and cut any unnecessary words. It is a good idea to do this at the end of each paragraph, or section, or chapter – however much you write in a ‘session’; everyone is different. Review your draft after you have just completed it, and when you are still in that particular ‘zone’, but also read it to yourself when you’ve gained some distance, so that you can see and hear it objectively. It’s not always easy, but it is necessary. Helen Dunmore advises to ‘listen to what you have written’, and it’s true. Words should be your craft, as a writer, so don’t let them become obstacles to the story itself.
