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Subject:RE: How do you edit your own writing? From:"Boulet, Elizabeth" <EBoulet -at- mmrd -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 25 Jan 2001 09:33:09 -0500
> Sanjay Srikonda (SSrikonda -at- invlink -dot- com) wrote <Does anyone have any good techniques for editing your own work?>
>
When I edited my own work, I set up a sort of writing/editing cycle. I'd write a piece and then let it sit for a few days. In the meantime I'd write some other pieces during the day and edit some previously completed pieces in the evening. I preferred editing my work at home, because the change in environment gave me different perspective. It helps that I've always been able to balance being self-critical with being able to laugh at myself. Some nights, I'd have a good laugh reading my own muddled-up
writing from a particularly disjointed day. My system worked pretty well for the four years that I worked as a sole technical writer. Now, my work goes through a series of <too many> editors.
Cheers
E-lizabeth Boulet
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