How to revise your own writing
Revision requires you to have faith in your own ability to improve your work. Try something else. What if you give yourself that reward immediately, as a way to coddle your writer brain and help it along? If I let myself go sit outside with a seltzer and a book for 20 minutes (so decadent), it helps me feel like a functioning, healthy person who can sit down and read her terrible draft. If I can forgive myself for being imperfect,