The Best Part

What is my favorite part of the writing process? Is it the writing itself, or something like editing, or holding a finished product in my hands?

Maybe it depends on when you ask me the question. Sometimes it’s when I figure out a point or scene that makes the story a lot better, one of those moments that feels like you just did something no one else has ever done. As I’ve written about before, those moments also seem to happen more frequently when I’m running. Which means I get to combine a runner’s high and that feeling of awesomeness.

Sometimes it’s when I’ve finished writing a book and that moment of completeness washes over me. It’s a momentary feeling, because I know I still have to edit, re-edit, rewrite some pieces, edit some more, and do a final edit.

The reason I asked myself about the best part of writing is because last week when I spent most of a Saturday editing Next Time, I really got caught up in it. Not the editing, so much, but the story itself. It wasn’t like I was reading something I’d never read (obviously) but I did want to keep reading it. The story propelled me along and I didn’t want to stop. It was a good feeling.

So, for that day, the best part of writing was reading what I wrote. Check back with me another day.