Day 4

I haven't written anything really today, I wrote this for the Locution forum, it'll just have to do for tonight's entry:

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So I promised to write something up for this.

Most of us who joined Marrow's 30 days of creativity are past the 15-day mark by now. The idea of Marrow's challenge was to get creativity flowing and to establish the habit of writing. As a writer it's important to keep writing for several reasons. It will improve your writing skills, hone your creativity and so forth. It's also important because it (oh so mercilessly) teaches us that we'll produce a lot of crap, and that's okay. Keep writing and eventually you'll hit the good stuff.

However, an equally important aspect of the writing process is editing, as I'm sure you all know. Editing is how we separate the grain from the chaff. In this process we don't just eliminate the bad stuff, we build on the good stuff as well, so this is my proposal:

I challenge you all once you're done with your 30 days of Creativity to spend 30 days on editing that material.

This is not necessarily as straightforward as writing new material for 30 days straight. The blogs may reign from actual editing and your woes with commas and clauses to ideas spawned on continuations on stories to why you decided that you'll work on Poem A but incinerate poem B and hope everyone forgets that it ever existed.

The point is to make some form of progress and post it in your blog every day.

Marrow shooed us all to Home Depot to get some material, now it's time to start building.

Thoughts, comments etc is, as always, welcome.

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