Which is harder: writing the first draft or revising?
Asked by poetrymidwest
This answer has changed a bunch over the last however many years, and probably will continue to change depending on how my day is going. Right now I enjoy the Let’s Take This Terrible Thing And Make It Slightly Less Terrible of editing, and if I don’t always loooove the Let’s See Where This Dumb Idea Goes of the first draft, at least I’m not afraid of it anymore. The hardest part for me is the Letting It Go. Being able to say “OK, this is done, this is what it’s supposed to be, and I won’t completely die if someone reads it.” I have yet to learn how to be good at that.
