Editor’s Picks — Top 10: Rewrite Your Article Again, Even When You’re Sick to Death of It
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Rewriting your piece means reading it — looking at it critically to improve your sentences and flow. You have to locate weak areas of your work.
“The beautiful part of writing is that you don’t have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can always do it better, find the exact word, the apt phrase, the leaping simile.” ~ Robert Edmund Cormier
Take a break after writing your first draft.
Don’t ever be fooled by the perfection of your first draft — it only feels like that for an hour. “A clear sentence is no accident. Very few sentences come out right the first time or even the third time. If you find that writing is hard, it’s because it is hard,” William Zinsser wrote in his book On Writing Well.
Read your piece as a reader would. Is your story doing what it was supposed to do? Is it addressing your intended audience? Would the article hold your reader’s interest?
