Don’t Edit, Rewrite Instead

How to go from first draft to masterpiece

Fleurine Tideman
The Writing Cooperative
3 min readDec 28, 2020

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Photo: Kelly Sikkema / Unsplash / CC BY-SA 4.0

The biggest mistake that writers make is thinking that it’s just about writing. It’s painful to see people post on writer’s groups about how they’re writing or have just finished their first draft, and how could they find an agent to publish this? It makes me wince, and I must admit that I’m not strong enough to write them the answer they deserve…

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