It's Friday, Issue #127
revision adjacent
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This month feels really heavy. Like everyone, I’m doing what I can.
I called my representatives. I donated to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota. I started the second season of The Pitt. I’m lifting weights, I'm learning dance routines, I’m hugging my kids. I got a pre-cancerous lesion burned off my nose. I’m reading this book. And this one.
I’m also writing.
Right now I’m easing back into my novel by revising the draft so far (239 pages…!) In order to understand how the story ends, I need to understand what came before. I usually rewrite the first 100 pages of a draft as soon as I’ve got them, but when I hit that milestone my only desire was to keep going.
The new year felt like an appropriate time to double back and reread, to reflect and adjust. In the fall I made a list of what I wanted to change and now I’m implementing those changes.
But, last week, I did something else. Call it revision-adjacent. This exercise was really useful and illuminating, so that I thought I’d the practice share it with you…