“Edits can be disheartening and overwhelming because you write the best book you possibly can the first time around, and then you’re asked to make it better. HOW?? But that extra set of eyes or two crack open the story in ways you never imagined.”— Kiersten White, twitter.com
“Another painful writing truth = You can follow every bit of advice, do everything you're supposed to do, and still not succeed the 1st time. Writing = art. It's not about ticking all the boxes. Your story must, above all, compel. If it doesn't, you've got to figure out why. There's this thing we cal…”— Delilah S. Dawson, twitter.com
“So I'm going to take on two related editing questions: How do you know if your edits are improving your book, and how do you know when you're ready to query? The bad news: There is no surefire way to know. But I can give you some tips! So let's say you have a 1st draft. It's garbage, because all 1st…”— Delilah S. Dawson, twitter.com
“I'm afraid, mortally afraid... that if the book were to be published as it is in its present edited form, I may never write another story, that's how closely, God Forbid, some of those stories are to my sense of regaining my health and mental well-being.”— Ray Carver, amazon.com
“Two types of filters had negative correlations: Saturation correlated to slightly lower views, and age effects led to lower comments.”— Courtney Seiter, blog.bufferapp.com
“Writing is like riding a bike. Once you gain momentum, the hills are easier. Editing, however, requires a motor and some horsepower.”— Gina McKnight, amazon.com
“Don’t over-filter yourself. Everyone can tell, I promise. That said, sometimes it’s fun to do ALL THE FILTERS on your selfie.”— Kara Nesvig, thoughtcatalog.com
“Play around with filters and time of day, and you're sure to have that Selena-worthy selfie in no time.”— Lily Herman, teenvogue.com
“A lot has to do with how your crop it. If you don't like something on your body, you just crop it.”— Kim Kardashian, marieclaire.com
“Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings.”— Stephen King, amazon.com
“How often do we approach revision fearing what we’ll discover about our stories? What if at the moment when we begin revision, we allow ourselves to dwell most significantly and earnestly in the possibilities of our stories?”— Karen Outen, glimmertrain.com
“Revisiting old work and wanting immediately to baptize it with fire is perfectly natural, perfectly healthy... but beyond merely accepting our old badness and taking solace in how far we've come, we ought sometimes to run back into the flames and drag re-writable ideas from the rubble.”— Trevor Crown, glimmertrain.com