{"id":11409,"date":"2021-02-11T16:57:58","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T23:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sherid.flywheelsites.com\/?p=11409"},"modified":"2023-02-02T15:21:12","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T22:21:12","slug":"writing-editing-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sheridwilson.com\/2021\/02\/writing-editing-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing &#038; Editing Tips &#8211; Reframe your Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sheridwilson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Sheri-D-Wilson-Inspired-Albertan-web-1024x538.jpg\" alt=\"Sheri-D Wilson on CTV's Inspired Albertan\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"538\" width=\"1024\" title=\"Sheri-D Wilson on CTV's Inspired Albertan\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n<h2>\n\t\tReframe your Brain\n\t<\/h2>\n&#8220;When your mind tries to stop you from writing or editing,<br \/>\nchange the direction of your thoughts.\nTrick yourself into doing<br \/>\nwhat you think you can&#8217;t do.&#8221;\n<p><!-- To move the name, change the 'margin-right' number --><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sheridwilson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Things-to-keep-in-mind-2.jpg\" alt=\"Things to keep in mind | Sheri-D Wilson Blog\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"500\" width=\"500\" title=\"Things to keep in mind | Sheri-D Wilson Blog\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\tWhen you&#8217;re about to edit your writing,<br \/>\ninstead of focusing on the words,<br \/>\nfocus in on the ideas.\nRedirect your thoughts back to the moment<br \/>\nwhen you first experienced what you&#8217;re writing about<br \/>\n(even it is in your imagination).\n<p>Revisit what inspired you to write the piece in the first place.<\/p>\nRevisit your original feelings, emotional response,<br \/>\nand observe what your senses are telling you now.\nSometimes to reexperience,<br \/>\nyou can freeze-frame moments or stop &#8211; start them,<br \/>\nmaking it easier to distill the images.\nIs there anything you missed<br \/>\nin your first draft?\nTry levitating above the scene,\u00a0observe it<br \/>\nfrom another angle.<br \/>\nExperiment with all angles.\nTake yourself back to the original inspiration<br \/>\nwhen you first put your pen to paper.\nWhat made you want to write the piece?<br \/>\nWhere were you?<br \/>\nIs there another layer you might add?<br \/>\nWhat is it?\nAsk yourself, what you see now<br \/>\nas you layer it on top of what you saw then.\nKeep your first draft somewhere safe<br \/>\nstart a second file<br \/>\nand edit with no mercy!\nEditing is Revisiting<br \/>\nand Revising the Experience.\n<h2>\n\t\tSubscribe to -D WRITING BLOG\n\t<\/h2>\n\t<p>I would love to keep in touch with you!<\/p>\n<h2>\n\t\tSubscribe to my YouTube Channel\n\t<\/h2>\n\t<p>For more poetry and jazzy inspirations!<\/p>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/sheridwilsonpoetry\" target=\"_self\" role=\"button\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSubscribe\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n<h2>\n\t\tThings to Know about Copyright\n\t<\/h2>\n\t<p>If you republish an excerpt from a blog always acknowledge the source. In other words, go ahead and quote me &#8211; Sheri-D Wilson.<\/p>\n<h2>\n\t\tSheri-D Wilson, D. Litt, C.M.\n\t<\/h2>\n\t<p>Sheri-D Wilson (aka The Mama of Dada) is the award-winning author of <a href=\"https:\/\/sheridwilson.com\/poems\/books\/\">12 books<\/a>, the creator of <a href=\"https:\/\/sheridwilson.com\/poems\/videos\/\">4 short films<\/a>, and has released <a href=\"https:\/\/sheridwilson.com\/poems\/cds\/\">3 albums<\/a> which combine music and poetry.<\/p>\n<p>Every fortnight, I send out a free blog post with my best tips to inspire you to write\/tell your own story, and to suggest ways for you to present your words with confidence and panache.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sheridwilson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/sheri-d-wilson-blog-image.jpg\" alt=\"Sheri-D Wilson, D.Litt - blog image\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"500\" width=\"500\" title=\"Sheri-D Wilson, D.Litt - blog image\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Write without Fear &#8211; Edit without mercy. Show no mercy with your writing! Be wild and then be ruthless. Drink and then be sober!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11652,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[40,44,41,42,43,39],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheridwilson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11409"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheridwilson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheridwilson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheridwilson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheridwilson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sheridwilson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12723,"href":"https:\/\/sheridwilson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11409\/revisions\/12723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheridwilson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheridwilson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheridwilson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheridwilson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}