Editing: My Writing, and This Newsletter📰

A very quick, fast, fleeting announcement

Aug 02, 2021

Hi everyone! Hope y’all are good. I’ve got a small announcement to make. For the past few weeks, I’ve been focused on editing some of my short stories and essays so I can submit them for publication. It’s been a goal of mine for a while now. But as I go through this process, I’m realizing how hard it is to edit a piece of writing. Oh my God. It’s a nightmare. It’s mechanical and critical and you have to hold so much in your head at once. You have to rearrange paragraphs and replace sentences and cut entire sections and fill other ones up. It’s like playing Tetris with your own thoughts. You doubt your skills and question what the purpose of the story/essay even was to begin with. Everything is tossed in the air, and you have to decide what to do.

Because of this, I’ve been relatively tied up the past couple of weeks and don’t have anything interesting or brainful to share with you all this week. In fact, as I zero in on my mission, I think I’m gonna take a little break from this newsletter for the month of August. My editing goals aside, this newsletter’s been running for over two years now, and I think it’s due for a re-evaluation. I’ll be back on Monday, September 6 with more words and, hopefully, good news.

Farewell for the next five weeks! May they fly by. And, in the meantime, I’d love if you left a comment or replied to this post with what you like about this newsletter and what you’d like to see from it moving forward!

Only Child

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