Writers revise. It’s part of the writing process. It takes your breath away when you go back and scan your own work to find errors. Revision is also a mindset.
In response to: Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is: “vis.” Use a word, or tie your post’s theme around a word, that contains the letters VIS, in that order.
You would have been so embarrassed if they had been published and you are so glad you caught them and changed them. Revision is the opposite of dogma or stream of consciousness. While all have their part in writing, revision is what gives writing its smart look and cohesive form. The animal in us blurts out whatever it wants without few filters, revision reins it in and makes it more palatable for the reader.
Young men finding their way in the world would do well to revise their goals along the way. They way have lofty ideals to be in the movies or become a real estate mogul when a happier goal is to pay one mortgage and work a job he loves all of his life. These types of goals are like pruning trees. They are called goal revision. Whenever I get a big creative idea I want to try, I have learned to keep it open to revision. The truck is to not become lazy and lose the spur of the moment dream but keeping it alive and ope to revision. It gets easier with practice.
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Shoulda Woulda Coulda.”
