“Revision is like being at the door of the bathroom and looking down and seeing toilet paper stuck to your shoe. The horror, and then the gratitude, that you hadn’t yet stepped outside,” writes meaghano
Photo-Illustration: by Preeti Kinha; Photos: Getty Images In the many, many years I spent wanting to be a writer but unable to write anything other than very long emails to men who didn’t care about me, I would read books and essays and wonder how the people who wrote them were so consistently brilliant.
What if someone were to record you telling a story to a big group of people at a party and then a couple of weeks later, you have to sit alone at your desk and listen to it? You can hear yourself trying to be funny, trying to be suspenseful, and, worst of all, trying to be profound. You hear all the missteps, all the overreaching. You can tell, even if no one else can, how desperate you are to be liked. This is what reading a draft is like for me and, I’m guessing, for other writers as well.
Revision requires you to have faith in your own ability to improve your work. To muster this faith in yourself and then summon the creativity to proceed while you’re filled with self-loathing is next to impossible. One thing I like to do is try to think of my writing brain as something a little separate from me, something that needs coaxing.
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