Whenever I have personal writing projects I want to attend to, it seems that my husband has legal talks he needs to give, and they take precedence over my stuff. He's a pretty careless writer, in that he mind-dumps ALL of his thoughts on paper as they occur to him...and it's my job to clean it up.
This has been a source of tension for many years, and I begrudgingly edit and re-write because it's important to him and his career, and he has much more earning potential with his writing than I will with mine-at least for now. Basically, the benefits are far-reaching for my family.
I shouldn't be so grumpy about doing this for him. Yes, it takes away from my creative process time, but...
1. Editing and revising someone else's work helps me identify the same mistakes I make in my own writing.
2. Distances me from my own projects so that I can jump back into them with fresh eyes.
3. Helps me to avoid mistakes in my work when I am in the creative process mode.
4. Gives me something to gripe and blog about. ;o)
Editing and critiquing someone else's work can only benefit and strengthen my own writing. It's a GOOD thing! I have joined an online critiquing site, www.critters.org, and plan to cheerfully critique and be critiqued in 2011. I signed up last year--but have not taken advantage of it yet. After "Identifying Your Jury Foreman" is submitted, I would like to find a critique partner, and continue with writing, editing & critiquing!
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