Stepping Back for A Better View

I am almost talking about revision.

​After five years and four rounds of that, this is a friendly definition for revising your writing. This is an abrupt post after an immeasurably (because I don't want to count back) long episode of zero blogging. I was never good at that in the first place. Add to it my hectic, haphazard life (aka backbreaking routine).

I assume that I have a pretty good excuse though.

​I have written the most in the past one year since major life changes like marriage, motherhood, medical career etc. From April 2017 until New Year 2018, except for an occasional peep for security reasons, I took a big break - a virtual detox - from Facebook, quite infamous for killing creativity and fuelling poor productivity (realized only when you do geroff), and boy, did it do me a world of good!!!

Amidst all my crazy routine, I wrote more than half a novel, learned the art of micropoetry (that you can find on my Instagram profile @sanarosewrites) and edited my first manuscript with my mentorly friend to the finl draft.

So, seriously, now I have a couple of things I can tell you from my observations:

• ​Geroff Facebook: You get to see more faces and more books (yes, I am back to reading). You get to see into yourself. You get to feed on lesser whinings. You get to realize that a virtual detox is cleansing. You get to rearrange your priorities and do more than click likes and scroll. The productivity and creativity shoots up. I wrote 48K words of my second novel during the virtual detox. I am still partially on it, my activity limited to sharing important news or posts from my instagram page.
• If you are a reader, read, even if it means hoarding books and wistfully looking at them, dreaming of time to read. Dreams do come true - eventually.
• If you are a writer, write and read (a lot). As for writing, the only way to keep at it is to write. I love Hemingway's tip to stop when you still want to write. It has tremendously helped me.
• Speaking of which, I do want to write here more, but I will stop now just so that I will come back with more.

So, because it is late here and because I'm sleep-deprived always, adieu until next time.

Love,
Sana

Reading now:

• ​Life After Life by Kate Atkinson (Paperback)
• On Writing: A Memoir of The Craft by Stephen King (Ebook)

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