After Page One: Process
In today’s After Page One post, Literary Mama reader Nina Lichtenstein shares about the impossible task of self-editing.
I know “cathartic” sounds dramatic, but I have no other way to describe the experience. It was intense, emotional and therapeutic. Why? Because having gone through it, I discovered that I am capable of achieving what I thought was impossible: to edit an essay down from 2700 to 850 words.