Revision

The revision process for my work is as complicated as it's creation process. I usually have to, when caught at a writers' block or feeling my work is complete, take a step away from my work for a week or so. I need this amount of time because usually after writing it I have it memorized and the way that I have written it is glued in my mind as being 'right'. Also I have to, after the week, find all the random sheets of paper with bits and pieces of my work jotted down and insert them where they are needed to be inserted. Sometime I read my work aloud to myself or a friend to see how it sound to me and then have someone read it to themselves.

I have someone read my work for grammatical errors (usually my grandmother and/or my mother because they are both teachers). After alterations I read my work another time to see how I like the order of events I've placed. Sometimes I take breaks during revisions and work on creating one set characters' persona. I take breaks and sing or write poetry so as to act as small steps away from my work so that I don't have to take another few days because I've gotten to attached to its' form to revise it any further. I write and revise within chaos. Even after all is said and done; this doesn't apply to the majority of my work, it's just the one routine that has worked more than 2 times.