I Hate Editing!!

  Hello, my new writers/ authors, Ok, hate is not the right word, strongly dislike editing is better. I like the writing of the story, but going back to re-read what I have written after a couple of months of it sitting there. Is the pits. When I do start my editing process, I find that I tend to make so many changes to the original story that it's like I have rewritten the whole story all over again from the beginning.  Or I do other silly things in the middle of the story, or at the end of the story, while editing it. Which changes the whole concept of the story.  Do you do that too? So now, when I edit, I make the changes I need to make while still saving the original story that was first written. I block it out with XXX on top and say on the side, save for later. That way, I can rewrite the story if I have to without losing the original story I have written. Because to be honest, if I had to write some of my stories over again from the beginning, I couldn't because I wouldn't remember what I had written the first time. Sounds crazy, right? So, I take my editing process slowly and read line by line to make sure it makes sense, and the story flows right. What's your editing process?

P.S. Reedsey Learning Center offers great free classes in editing and other stuff to help writers like us learn the craft better. I use their free class all the time and learn a lot from them. Just saying....

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