Love the Re-Draft

For all the work I’ve done, sometimes you have to come back immediately. It could be an email, or something annoying me in bed before sleep. I’ve needed to make necessary edits to letters, my website, perhaps I missed adding in music and could have touched up the image quality.

Every single time there’s a little groan deep inside. Every single time it was necessary, whether I appreciated that at the time or not. When I finished my first self-published work, it was a case of seven drafts (that I can remember, probably more).

Planning, putting the pieces in place feels really good personally. Sometimes, and this is like mindset and adrenaline when hitting PR’s and being in stride with a workout routine; a different day takes that ego inflation. It feels good to do something creative…but the best of times, when it matters?

This to me is like finishing a challenging novel. Those last 50 pages, more so the 50 before are going to test you. And unlike a book, when it’s done it isn’t quite done.

You need to take the feedback, your own and those you trust in the best way. Sometimes it needs to be feigned. You can know what you meant, but instinct will tell you what you need to try to change.

That’s the re-draft. What can be better. Because it is getting there.

You are nearly there. It does not come like a Beat Poet novel where they just scrolled it all off like magic hands on a typewriter. It will feel funny. You may not feel too great when it’s done.

That’s how I did the good things you readers out there liked the most. The completion, fulfilment, and the act made to completion carries a higher pleasure in time.

So don’t fear the re-draft. Love it like any challenge worth being challenging.