Weekly Creativity #201: Pick up a Previous Piece of Writing You Didn’t Quite Like and Rewrite it
Pick up a previous piece of writing you didn’t quite like and rewrite it.
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Pick up a previous piece of writing you didn’t quite like and rewrite it.
It’s Thursday, a day for thinking about theme. Your theme is the underlying meaning of your story, or the main idea that it explores, or the message it is trying to convey. Any or all of the elements of your story can help to convey your theme. Today, take another look at a story you have already worked on. What is its theme? Does it actually have one, or can it be strengthened?
Let’s face it. Writing is fun. It’s the revising we avoid. When we first write, our pen goes wherever our ideas lead; we create characters and situations, mold them and direct them at will. Then we sit back, marinating in the satisfaction of our finished work. Enter the dreaded voice of revision, whose sole purpose is to highlight all that stinks about our wonderful composition.