Day 158: Edit for, and with, your readers.
Write with the door closed; rewrite with the door open.
(Stephen King)
This quote by King can be interpreted in 2 ways, both useful as you seek to improve your own writing.
- When you write, you should be concerned with only your ideas, but when you rewrite (or edit), you should be concerned with your audience.
- You write alone, all by yourself, but the rewriting (editing) process involves others, i.e., you don’t do it alone.
In either interpretation, the writing is a deeply personal and private process, but the rewriting and editing process occurs from the reader’s perspective.
