![]() ![]() My litany of self-doubting questions are likely familiar to many of you. Am I saying anything interesting? Is what I’m saying even right? Has someone else already said it better? Might I be inadvertently offending someone? Could I be unnecessarily complicating the issue? Have I contradicted myself? You get the idea. This stage is harder because it is less about technique and more about self-doubt. The hard part is deciding whether something is worth sharing and whether it can be revised into publishable form. The second phase is the fun one because it involves fixing something that I know I want to share. This preliminary phase-which I will talk about this post-is the hard one for me. Before we can begin these sequenced stages of revision, we may need to confront our own ambivalence about what we’ve written. I often talk about the relatively simple fact that we ought to tackle some aspects of revision before others, but here I’m getting at something different. I decided there must be some way to build on this accidental overshare, but I wasn’t immediately sure how best to do so.Īs I pondered this question, I realized that my revision process has two phases. ![]() Mistakenly posting a work in progress is certainly one way to show the world how muddled my thinking and syntax can be. I’ve certainly talked here about how rarely we see other people’s weak drafts and have often wondered how best to combat this problem. Lots of people said that they were actually glad to see a provisional version of someone else’s writing. After my initial horror subsided, I found the reader reaction interesting. The post was so rough that I hadn’t even decided whether or not I wanted to publish it I often use this space just to think through issues that are on my mind. I still don’t know how I managed to hit Publish instead of Save Draft, but I did. ![]()
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