Hey, see the Mountain of Success, way over there? The only way to get to it is through the Valley of Failure. There is no other way.
It’s a peculiarity of this job that it’s the reader who gets to sit on that mountain, in the sunshine, reading a perfect, finished piece. The writer at no point has that experience. The writer is, always, down in the valley, struggling with imperfect draft after imperfect draft.
Julian Gough (click to read a brilliant essay on how to self-edit)
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© Bridget Whelan
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Rewrite,Rewrite,Rewrite. The assignment is never finished; the due date just arrives!
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