That used to be what I told people about why I’ve not progressed in my writing. That I enjoy the writing but despise the editing. But, the other day in a conversation, I realized that wasn’t true. I enjoy editing… I can re-read and polish and read and revise a work again and again just enjoying getting the flow just right.
Then what was it that made me feel I was an inexperienced writer? That I didn’t know what I was doing? That my work “wasn’t ready to submit to an agent, an editor, a publisher?
Editing the plot was what I realized I didn’t know how to do.
I can write every detail and polish it until it flows.. but I find it very difficult to discern if this detail is necessary to the plot or just me writing EVERYTHING that occurs to me would happen.
So to try and not get bogged down in minutia, I outlined a basic plot of the first book in the Multi-verse series & the first book in the Slut series. And while in the “full of epiphanies” conversation I was delivering my standard joke of “I write about sex & relationships cuz that’s what I know! haha”, I realized in all the plotting I’d done, I’d left out all the sex! How can a book be erotic if no one ends up in bed until the end! That’s just a romance!