{"id":2744,"date":"2011-12-07T13:56:05","date_gmt":"2011-12-07T20:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=2744"},"modified":"2025-11-02T17:46:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T00:46:44","slug":"its-not-the-writing-its-the-editing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=2744","title":{"rendered":"Its not the writing its the editing"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>That used to be what I told people about why I’ve not progressed in my writing.\u00a0 That I enjoy the writing but despise the editing.\u00a0 But, the other day in a conversation, I realized that wasn’t true.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

Then what was it that made me feel I was an inexperienced writer?\u00a0 That I didn’t know what I was doing?\u00a0 That my work “wasn’t ready to submit to an agent, an editor, a publisher?<\/p>\n

Editing the plot was what I realized I didn’t know how to do.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.\u00a0 And while in the “full of epiphanies” conversation I was delivering my standard joke of\u00a0 “I write about sex & relationships cuz that’s what I know! haha”,\u00a0\u00a0 I realized in all the plotting I’d done, I’d left out all the sex!\u00a0 How can a book be erotic if no one ends up in bed until the end!\u00a0 That’s just a romance!<\/p>\n

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That used to be what I told people about why I’ve not progressed in my writing.\u00a0 That I enjoy the writing but despise the editing.\u00a0 But, the other day in a conversation, I realized that wasn’t true.\u00a0 I enjoy editing… … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2744"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3139,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2744\/revisions\/3139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}