It may be outlining your story, hitting your word count for the day, or fixing that cringy scene. Then there will be days where you have to dig deep, find new soil beneath that gravel and replow old crusty bits. Editing sometimes feels like we are going backwards. Yet the only way a writing pathway can keep moving forward is to make sure every word counts. Can you be more succinct for a better impact? Pull a Steven King killing of unnecessary adjectives or overused adverbs? It may mean losing 10k in words, but when the end result is a better crafted story, who cares about word count?

When working on our writing pathway, there may be times we are tempted to despise the slow, soil days. Writers, nothing grows without soil, and no pathway is worn without time and repetition. From time to time I will post things that have inspired me in my writing journey, both good and bad, so we can all get to those finishing touches of publication.