{"id":2113,"date":"2012-04-03T11:00:54","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T16:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/?p=2113"},"modified":"2012-04-03T11:00:54","modified_gmt":"2012-04-03T16:00:54","slug":"no-secrets-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/?p=2113","title":{"rendered":"No secrets here"},"content":{"rendered":"

Editing secrets? I don\u2019t have any editing secrets. In fact, I am really excited to read everyone else\u2019s posts revealing their editing secrets this week so that I can steal them.<\/p>\n

I have no editing process because I have yet to significantly edit anything. In general, when I\u2019ve \u201cedited\u201d a manuscript, I\u2019ve made cosmetic changes: grammar corrections, delete extra adverbs\/adjectives and unneeded passages, and make the remaining sentences prettier. Maybe tweak dialog a bit. But I honestly haven\u2019t ever taken the editing process past surface level.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t get me wrong. I\u2019ve tried. I always make notes for bigger edits, send out my manuscript to my trusted writing friends for their feedback, and I always have big plans for revision. At first. But then I get overwhelmed and never make them. The Novel Graveyard<\/a> gets bigger every year as I write and drop project after project.<\/p>\n

Maybe nothing I\u2019ve written has been worthy of the edits needed. Maybe I\u2019m just a lazy writer because I won\u2019t actually do the hard work that\u2019s needed to perfect a manuscript. Maybe it\u2019s my fear of success as much as my fear of failure that keeps me from ever polishing anything beyond Zero Draft <\/a>status. I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n

My editing goal, of course, is to someday edit a manuscript within an inch of its life and actually submit it. Hopefully someday I\u2019ll get out of the lazy chair and do that. In the meantime, I have smaller goals: like write some short stories and edit them. And edit them again and then submit them places.<\/p>\n

I suppose my biggest editing secret right now is that I need practice. And confidence. My fellow Confabulators assure me that working with something smaller than a one-hundred-thousand word manuscript will give me the editing skills I need, while getting published will give me the confidence I need. Baby steps, right?<\/p>\n

For now, I am listening to all of my fellow writers\u2019 editing secrets with open ears. Enlighten me, friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Editing secrets? I don\u2019t have any editing secrets. In fact, I am really excited to read everyone else\u2019s posts revealing their editing secrets this week so that I can steal them. I have no editing process because I have yet to significantly edit anything. In general, when I\u2019ve \u201cedited\u201d a manuscript, I\u2019ve made cosmetic changes: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[327,762,941,1297],"class_list":["post-2113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mechanics","tag-editing","tag-novel-graveyard","tag-revision","tag-zero-draft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}