: Re: Write to the finish, or edit as you go? Someone asked this question in another forum, and I thought I'd bounce it around in here to see what kind of responses we get. If you are working

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The answer to this is why we have chapters. The novel is broken down into more manageable chunks for both writer and reader. You don’t have to work on the novel — or read it — as though it is one big chapter.

So my suggestion to you is: write straight through to the end of the chapter, then on a separate day, with fresh eyes, edit and refine the chapter, then move on to writing the next chapter.

This approach solves many giant problems:

you don’t interrupt your writing time and flow with stop-and-go editing and second-guessing because you know you are going to edit the complete chapter during a separate editing session
you edit while the writing is fairly fresh in your mind, but with a little distance of a separate day to get perspective
you build each additional chapter on a fairly solid foundation of edited, refined previous chapters — not on the shifting sand of unedited chapters.

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