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Originally Posted by VydorScope
If I am having trouble, I typically go back to the beginning and start editing. It really helps reconnect me with the world.
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Glad to see you have managed to find a solution that seems to work for you.
Interestingly enough, though, this seems to have a very opposite effect on me.
I try not to read back on my chapters at all until I have completely finished. Going back to edit seems to take a lot of time, as I will not stop until I have every error or minor tweak here and there fixed completely. Therefore, causing my writing to be delayed for days, even a week sometimes.
My editor/co-writer already knows that if I send him a chapter in progress, he cannot mention a word to me of things that need to be fixed, until I send him the whole chapter completed. And usually, by the time I send him the whole chapter, I have already edited most of his complaints.
I find my editing does not take as long, when I go back and read the chapter all at once, fixing every problem as I see them. It is much easier to fix all my problems at once.
It would seem a method that works well for you, would have the exact opposite desired effect for me.