“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
“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