I think one of the hardest things to deal with as a writer is knowing my major problem and worrying about that as I write. I wish I could just block out the thought of knowing that I have tense issues (no, not like the issues are tense but the fact that writing in present and past give me trouble).
I've had this particular issue since I was in high school. It was addressed in college when I wrote papers in English and though I managed to fix them for the papers I wrote it took a lot of effort and the correcting came after the paper was finished. This time, it feels much more daunting than it did before. Mostly because while my papers were anywhere from 6-10 pages long, my manuscripts range in the hundreds. How can I go back and correct hundreds of pages of wrong tense?! It's so...time consuming (LOL). Still, I know it must be done and I hate knowing that it must be done because in an effort to save myself time in the future I tend to go back while I'm writing or focus on just the tense aspect of my writing and therefore lose focus on just getting the story told.
This is something that I'll have to work on. Even though I want to avoid the work later (I do not have an editor and honestly what unpublished writer with no money and no connections does?) I need to focus on getting the story down and then go back and work on it.
This is my third rewrite and changing the POV was a big step in itself but I'm also changing some of the group dynamics and things that happened in the previous drafts will no longer be happening in this one.
I'm writing right now and I just felt the need to put this out into the void. I need to get back to work and at least work for another thirty minutes because I have to sleep seeing as I have a job interview tomorrow. After all, an unpublished writer doesn't make money and I have bills.
xoxo
Steph
I've had this particular issue since I was in high school. It was addressed in college when I wrote papers in English and though I managed to fix them for the papers I wrote it took a lot of effort and the correcting came after the paper was finished. This time, it feels much more daunting than it did before. Mostly because while my papers were anywhere from 6-10 pages long, my manuscripts range in the hundreds. How can I go back and correct hundreds of pages of wrong tense?! It's so...time consuming (LOL). Still, I know it must be done and I hate knowing that it must be done because in an effort to save myself time in the future I tend to go back while I'm writing or focus on just the tense aspect of my writing and therefore lose focus on just getting the story told.
This is something that I'll have to work on. Even though I want to avoid the work later (I do not have an editor and honestly what unpublished writer with no money and no connections does?) I need to focus on getting the story down and then go back and work on it.
This is my third rewrite and changing the POV was a big step in itself but I'm also changing some of the group dynamics and things that happened in the previous drafts will no longer be happening in this one.
I'm writing right now and I just felt the need to put this out into the void. I need to get back to work and at least work for another thirty minutes because I have to sleep seeing as I have a job interview tomorrow. After all, an unpublished writer doesn't make money and I have bills.
xoxo
Steph