ieva melgalve

So, I’m going to write a novel during NaNoWriMo. (Who isn’t?)
Also, I’m trying to plan my future somewhat (more a cold-shower exercise, not a snuggles-and-dreams one).
One thing that I’ve been avoiding is marking down “then, I’ll edit my NaNoWriMo novel to completion” point. The reasons are obvious: if I write something in that ungodly speed (approximately two times faster than I do on the good days, and doing it every day) it’s very likely to be crap and editing crap is worse than writing a different, non-crap novel to edit.
There are two drawbacks to this attitude (apart from that it’s messing with my neat novel-writing plans):
1) there’s hardly any value, at my present stage of development, in writing a first draft I won’t be looking at again, so I don’t give my NaNo thing full attention (and that makes it more useless),
2) at my present stage of development I need to focus on hard-core editing as a skill; something I can do on any draft, no matter how crappy it is, because, well, because it’s a part of being a writer. I know I detest it but damn if I care what I think of it.

So here’s my resolution: I will finish my NaNo novel and then I will schedule some time to edit it, and I will edit it to perfection. No matter how long it takes. No mater how much blood and snot and tears it’ll take.
Hear me roar.