30 Days of Editing

[Roux]

So I promised to write something up for this.

Most of us who joined Marrow's 30 days of creativity are past the 15-day mark by now. The idea of Marrow's challenge was to get creativity flowing and to establish the habit of writing. As a writer it's important to keep writing for several reasons. It will improve your writing skills, hone your creativity and so forth. It's also important because it (oh so mercilessly) teaches us that we'll produce a lot of crap, and that's okay. Keep writing and eventually you'll hit the good stuff.

However, an equally important aspect of the writing process is editing, as I'm sure you all know. Editing is how we separate the grain from the chaff. In this process we don't just eliminate the bad stuff, we build on the good stuff as well, so this is my proposal:

I challenge you all once you're done with your 30 days of Creativity to spend 30 days on editing that material.

This is not necessarily as straightforward as writing new material for 30 days straight. The blogs may reign from actual editing and your woes with commas and clauses to ideas spawned on continuations on stories to why you decided that you'll work on Poem A but incinerate poem B and hope everyone forgets that it ever existed.

The point is to make some form of progress and post it in your blog every day.

Marrow shooed us all to Home Depot to get some material, now it's time to start building.

Thoughts, comments etc is, as always, welcome.

[interrodactyl]

If I may make one suggestion, everyone should take at least a week off from their works after the long, difficult journey is over.

For perspective, more than anything else. It was the same reason that NaNoEdMo was in March and not in December. (Well, logistics played into that too...)

[meristele]

Perhaps we could make it at the participant's discretion? If I stop a week I won't start again. :/

My sincerest apologies; I'm going to keep on going.

[meristele]

I'm starting on this tonight. Please supply the Star Trek theme song, and lots of chocolate.

[interrodactyl]

There's always a first, and damn if I'm not excited to see how this turns out for you, meri.