Stuck in the “Endless Editing” Phase?

Category: Academics

Do you find yourself continually revising and reworking sections of your writing to the point when you feel like you just can’t move forward? The late New Yorker writer James Thurber advised that a first draft should be a “purge” of what you want to express, a literal pouring out of what you know without much regard paid to form or coherence. Real writing, Thurber believed, lay in subsequent drafts carefully revised for narrative, argument, coherence and style. Quality writing was a result of the rewriting process, basically.