Marshel 08 makes a great point about the difficulties in finding mistakes in our own writing. The problem I have encountered is I try too hard to find too many mistakes and sometimes destroy a well written draft by substituting so many fragments and pieces, losing what I was originally looking for.
I think what this chapter fails to mention is that you have to trust your writing at times. Just because the reading tells us to step back and look for mistakes we would not normally see does not mean your draft is awful and needs to be rewritten. You may have the best draft in your first draft. I have another blog over at wordpress.com that I use to write about life, music, and generally anything that comes to mind and interests me. Here it is a rambling freestyle approach at writing with minimal editing. Any editing I really look at comes in fact checking and tending to numbers, dates, and events. Other than that, I let my writing go. I just started the blog and have been pretty good about posting daily but the flu has had me down which will in turn give me something new to write about. Ok, Happy Halloween to all.
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