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Tiggy<p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> 6. Do you edit while writing, or go wild and fix it later?</p><p>Both? But sometimes neither?<br>I sometimes try to give my hands a rest and use speech to text, but if I don't edit as I go it reels out garbage. Even the paid versions can't recognise a female standard English voice.</p><p>During writing month, I leave in [...] to indicate I couldn't think of the word I wanted just there -hoping it will make sense later.</p>
Klepsis<p><a href="https://indieauthors.social/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a><br><a href="https://indieauthors.social/tags/EpigraphCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EpigraphCoffeeClub</span></a></p><p>"It's pretty much puzzles all the way down." — <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://wandering.shop/@afeinman" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>afeinman</span></a></span></p><p>6. Do you edit while writing, or go wild and fix it later?</p><p>Beyond fixing spelling errors I don't edit much while drafting. I know what I want to say in the moment and I write it. It's only later that I realize I shouldn't have wanted to say that. </p><p><a href="https://indieauthors.social/tags/amWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>amWriting</span></a> <a href="https://indieauthors.social/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritingCommunity</span></a></p>
Nathan Lowell (he/him)<p>Do you edit while writing, or go wild and fix it later?</p><p>I try not to waste time fixing text that won't survive the second draft. </p><p>Sometimes I write myself into a corner and need to back up a bit to make a different choice but I've learned that a blank page is much worse that clumsy prose in an incomplete first draft.</p><p><a href="https://indieauthors.social/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a></p>
Christina Anne Hawthorne<p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> 06 (part2)<br>edit while writing?</p><p>I learned fast drafting from Ray Bradbury, which led to my first completed novel. It also led to:</p><p>My love for editing (thank you, Tiffany Yates Martin) &amp; the magic it creates, turning monochrome to vivid colors, taking the story deeper than I’d imagined.</p><p>Editing used to be drudgery. Now, it’s a magical transformation that uses a different part of the brain. I’m still in awe at the possibilities.</p><p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/AmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmWriting</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritingCommunity</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/Fantasy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fantasy</span></a></p>
Nicole Hidalgo<p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> 6. Do you edit while writing, or go wild and fix it later?</p><p>For a while now, I've operated under the rule of writing the entire story first, then editing. Editing while writing just made things slower and more frustrating. My rule is: the important is to have a story down. Once I have it, *then* I can worry about polishing it, finding cooler words, fixing stuff...</p><p>Eternal Flame is a bit of an exception. But even then, I write the whole chapter before going back to edit it.</p>
Rage Rumbles 🏴‍☠️🫂🔞<p><a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> </p><p>6 Apr: Do you edit while writing, or go wild and fix it later? </p><p>If I didn't edit as I go I wouldn't edit at all.</p><p><a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writingcommunity</span></a></p>
Joyce Lionarons<p><a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> 6 Apr<br>Do you edit while writing, or go wild and fix it later? </p><p>Yes. I edit while writing AND I go wild and fix it all later.</p>
Steve DeGroof 📚🛸<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> Apr 6: Do you edit while writing, or go wild and fix it later?</p><p>A little of both. If I'm "in the zone", I'll just barrel ahead to get my thoughts down, then go back and fix later. If I feel less focused, I'll edit while I'm writing.</p>
Pete Alex Harris🦡🕸️🌲/∞🪐∫<p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> 6 Apr<br>Do you edit while writing, or go wild and fix it later?</p><p>I edit in my head while I'm talking. I edit almost everything I write, line by line. It's rare that I get to the end of a paragraph without rewording *something*.</p><p>I edited that one at least twice ^</p><p>But that doesn't get a line to its final shape; a lot gets changed later after structural edits, voice edits, cleanup edits, proofreading edits, readaloud edits. That first line polish is a habit more than anything.</p>
Christina Anne Hawthorne<p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> 06<br>edit while writing?</p><p>I’m a prolific fast drafter (120-140K novel in 20-30 days).</p><p>I don’t edit, I finish, focusing on drafting alone. Each new day, I read the last paragraph, put on the same music, &amp; write.</p><p>If I note an error, I fix it in seconds or leave it. If it’s a (rare) major problem, I note it &amp; move on.</p><p>Planning, outside facts, happens in narratives (backstory, character, plot) that also act as a drafting warm-up.</p><p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/AmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmWriting</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritingCommunity</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/Fantasy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fantasy</span></a></p>
amPennyfeather<p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> 4/6. Do you edit while writing, or go wild and fix it later?</p><p>I've taken to getting the entire first draft out with very little edits along the way, and then being intentional about fixing things afterwards.</p><p>It makes the drafting process more fun, and probably faster. And, overall, I think it'll lead to fewer drafts because any fixes I make at the beginning will fit with anything I discovered about the story and characters while drafting the end.</p>
C. R. Collins<p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> Apr 6<br>Do you edit while writing, or go wild and fix it later?</p><p>My usual system is to read at least a chapter back at the beginning of each writing session, to get back into the "zone," and edit as needed. Then I'll go on to the next chapter. I don't normally edit as I go line by line, unless I've just made a glaring error. Sometimes I'll realize I forgot to mention something and go back to put it in.</p>
Schroedinger<p><a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> Apr 6: Do you edit while writing, or go wild and fix it later?</p><p>I think, then i write an letting the writing flow. Sometimes I add comments if it is not right.</p><p>But editing is a number of phases beyond that.</p>
EH Lupton<p><a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/writersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writersCoffeeClub</span></a> 4/6: Do you edit while writing, or go wild and fix it later?</p><p>My goal is generally to write all the way through without editing. Sometimes things go sideways and I do have to backtrack and start again, but ideally I would avoid that. It's much easier to fix the plot once I've done a full draft.</p><p>("or you could try writing an outline" yeah I know but I won't.)</p>
Steph (they/them)<p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> 6th April: Do you edit while writing, or go wild and fix it later?</p><p>I do a quick pass over a scene after I've finished it, but otherwise I generally do all my editing once the first draft is complete. </p><p>I wouldn't say I go wild though. I write very clean first drafts. I'm an underwriter, not an overwriter: I usually find I have to add words to my second draft.</p>
ClaraBlackInk<p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> 6Apr— Do you edit while writing, or go wild and fix it later?</p><p>I used to edit while writing, mainly because that's what I was taught to do.</p><p>Now I go wild and fix it later. Editing is actually fun but I find it too difficult to write freely while also editing. It leads to a sense of distress and second guessing that I find impractical and self defeating.</p><p>I will occasionally edit small things as I write if it's too distracting not to. But, as I rule I separate the two.</p>
Will Elm<p><a href="https://indieauthors.social/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> Apr6. Do you edit while writing, or go wild and fix it later?</p><p>I cannot edit as I go, I'd never get anywhere. So I write a first draft with minimal edits, then go back and fix everything later. It does mean my editing takes longer but at least I have a completed draft to work with.</p>
Sarah J Hoodlet<p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> 6Apr— Do you edit while writing, or go wild and fix it later?</p><p>I edit whenever I damn well please. 😆</p><p>When I finish a chapter, I usually go back and do a quick read through to ensure it flows the way it needs to. If I find minor edits then, I’ll fix them.</p><p>But major editing happens after the 1st draft is complete. I leave notes for myself in the document, so I know what needs to be edited and where.</p><p>This method seems to work best for me, which is what matters.</p>
GaH Learner<p>6. Do you edit while writing, or go wild and fix it later?</p><p>I go wild and fix later.</p><p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/GL425" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GL425</span></a></p>
Gerald So<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> Apr 6: Do you edit while writing, or go wild and fix it later?</p><p>I do some editing while drafting, but mostly it is "Get all the ideas down and then sort them out (a.k.a. edit)".</p>
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