Editing is about refining, chipping away, honing in, changing, and adapting your creative work. Editing is part of the creative process and we need to talk about how important it is as a creative. But when do you know it is ready?
Quote:
"To me, the single biggest mark of the amateur writer is a sense of hurry. Hurry to finish a manuscript, hurry to edit it, hurry to publish it. It's definitely possible to write a book in a month, leave it unedited, and watch it go off into the world and be declared a masterpiece. It happens every fifty years or so. For the rest of us, the single greatest ally we have is time. There's no page of prose in existence that its author can't improve after it's been in a drawer for a week. The same is true on the macro-level – every time I finish a story or a book, I try to put it away and forget it for as long as I can. When I return, its problems are often so obvious and easy to fix that I'm amazed I ever struggled with them. Amateur writers are usually desperate to be published, as soon as possible. And I understand that feeling – you just want it to start, your career, your next book, whatever. But I wonder how many self-published novels might have had a chance at getting bought, and finding more readers if their authors had a bit more patience with them?" -
Charles Finch (The Vanishing Man, The Last Enchantments)
References:
Author George R.R. Martin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_R._R._Martin
Passengers Film https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passengers_(2016_film)
Passengers Rearranged YouTube Clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gksxu-yeWcU
Heroes Journey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero%27s_journey
Top 3 Short Films
Zane
Tim Burton short film Vincent https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LNzJKHR3yM
Pixar Lava https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lava_(2014_film)
If anything happens I love you https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_Anything_Happens_I_Love_You
Thomas
Dinner For One https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinner_for_One
Steven Spielberg Duel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duel_(1971_film)
This Charming Man https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Charming_Man_(film)
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