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| Overcoming the Anxiety of Revising |
| Most of us are trained from our first exercises in school to think of revising as a painful, unrewarding act, changing a word or two here or there without actually improving our writing. We don't really know what to do. Later on, we learn to cut and perhaps to rearrange a few blocks of writing, but often we do this with a draft that is already fragmented, filled with remnants of discarded thoughts and passages that need more rather than less explanation for a reader. Writing becomes the easier part of the process, and revising a series of unpredictable, disjointed acts that can spoil the whole thing. People often feel they have squeezed the life out of the writing in revising it, or that they can't change one part because then they would have to rewrite the rest. No wonder, then, that some people settle for eliminating passive voice or unnecessary commas from their rough drafts; there isn't time, energy, or confidence to do more. But revising should be as exciting as composing a draft. We may not be as intrepid as Dylan Thomas, who delighted in "improving" Shakespeare in his public readings, but we should anticipate some refreshing surprises as we improve an essay or memo. The parts of your raw draft are interdependent; they influence each other, and have a relationship to the whole design that gives revising the sculptor's sense of freeing the figure from the stone. In the context of the raw draft, some pieces of the argument will seem too fragmentary, or too isolated; others will call for greater emphasis or illustration. Eliminating the fragmentary pieces scales the draft down to size and provides internal coherence. The improvements for unity on your roughly final draft filter and shift material organically, as would occur naturally over a longer period of maturation. QUICK WRITING PROCESS simply speeds up the process by harnessing the pressures of time, space, and audience. |
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