The "3 rounds" technique

The "3 rounds" technique

... for revising your writing:

• The first edit is for yourself (what you like and what you think is good)

• The second round is for the people that like what you write ( the people you think will like your material)

The first words you write are the first draft. Writing is thinking. You'll rarely know what exactly you want to say when you start writing.

The time you put into editing, reworking and refining turns your first draft into a second draft, and then into a third. If you keep refining it o...

• Use self-distancing language:  refer to yourself in the second or third-person.
• Try to view the situation from an alternative viewpoint, that is different from your own.
• Try to visualize the perspective of  someone you admire, and then ask yourself what w...