I have a confession to make.
Though I try, I simply cannot throw words away.
Nope. Can’t do it.
I have draft after draft all saved on Bessie (my incredibly old but still limping along computer). I have “Alternates to X Draft” filled with beautiful prose, but not so good it made the final cut.
When I’m troubled by a particular passage/sentence/paragraph I save every version, then torture myself by revisiting it later, polishing it up, then changing my final draft to whatever I’ve just whipped up.
No wonder my rewrites are taking forever!
