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Holly Rabalais's avatar

Wonderfully written! I enjoyed reading your process (and that wonderful eating:writing analogy!), and it reminded me of a message I sent my husband on my process the other day after publishing a piece.

- start several drafts of different topics

- scrap each until one seems to work

- write a bunch of stuff

- copy and paste half of it into a different document

- pull content from another draft into the working draft

- feel like this is sh*t and it’s never coming together

- come back to it have an epiphany, feel like this could actually be great, delete 1/4, and write the rest of the post

- email it to myself, read later, delete three more paragraphs, search for synonyms of boring words, read aloud to catch errors

- agonize over whether it is sh*t or actually good

- read aloud again and correct more bits

- publish and feel like I have just launched the worst post into the world

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Terry Freedman's avatar

I am full of admiration, Rebecca. I tend to think of an idea, write it down, mull it over and write an article in my head, and then bash it out. I have found the best way of catching proofing errors is to hit "Publish" and then tweet it out to thousands of people: never fails!

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