Cat Weatherill on helping your future self
Yesterday, Jill Abram told us to bop the internal editor on the nose: but once you’ve got past that troublesome figure and put some words down on paper or a screen, then you will definitely need to revisit them with an editorial eye. This tip from Cat Weatherill takes you to that next stage.
Cat is a mesmeric storyteller and author. Whatever she writes is driven by the old, old instinct to tell a tale. Her tip, however, is fresh and practical. It’s particularly useful for those of you writing in long form, like novelists. This hack is a great and insightful way to accommodate the bad days that all writers have, without fear that they will drag down the quality of the finished object. Here she is to explain:
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