An excellent and inspiring breakdown of the writing process. It is too easy to get bogged down in the 30% or 90-100% stages. The best advice I ever received was to send something out at 99-100% and get help from reviewers/collaborators. It made peer review feel much less adversarial. Thanks Mary, for your insights into the writing process.
Thanks, Jacqueline! I’m so happy people are finding it helpful, and you’re absolutely right about sending things out at 99%-100%. It also means you don’t waste time and energy straining to get that final 1% out of your head—instead, you let others do that work while you move on to writing something else!
Your commentary is quite helpful. It is reassuring to be told I can reframe the barriers I butt against as natural stages.
I’m so glad you found it helpful! It’s something I repeatedly have to tell myself during the early awful stages of writing a piece….
An excellent and inspiring breakdown of the writing process. It is too easy to get bogged down in the 30% or 90-100% stages. The best advice I ever received was to send something out at 99-100% and get help from reviewers/collaborators. It made peer review feel much less adversarial. Thanks Mary, for your insights into the writing process.
Thanks, Jacqueline! I’m so happy people are finding it helpful, and you’re absolutely right about sending things out at 99%-100%. It also means you don’t waste time and energy straining to get that final 1% out of your head—instead, you let others do that work while you move on to writing something else!