What Author's Hat are You Wearing?

#1 Mistake when you are working on your first draft....Wearing the EDITOR'S HAT WHEN YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO BE WEARING THE WRITER'S HAT!

Fight the temptation to edit while you are laying out your ideas. You are tapping into a specific Source for your content, whether it be your own experience, the limitless creative well of a collective consciousness, or what I call Divine guidance.
We all have an inner critic, it helps us tremendously during the editing process, but if you let your inner critic take the reigns during your writing session, it will shoot down dang near every good idea you could have. If you pause to edit in the middle of a flowing sentence, you run the risk of the information passing you by and you aren't able to capture it whole or receive it in the flow that it is coming.

An OUTLINE will drastically help you from the get go, this way you don't have to wonder if things are out of place, you will know later, "Okay, this should go here," then viola` you can send it to the right section during that editing session.
***Don't worry you can take out the extra stuff later, just write!

This mistake also leads to writers block. It can take the enjoyment out of the writing process which could then lead you to burnout.

Trust me I know this all to well! Most writers run into this so you are not alone.

I can't tell you how many times I would try to come up with a better word for what was coming and then I stopped to look it up or or those annoying red lines were irking my nerves and I went to correct them, then I came back and totally forgot what I was being led to write.

You see when it is time to flow, you gotta let it flow! THEN...once you have your ideas laid out, go back you can put that EDITOR'S HAT on and edit it the way you wanted to!

If you just can't let it go, set a schedule. Give your writer's hat some me time to flow and then set a date with your editor's hat to make those needed corrections.
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There is no one way of when to edit, you have to find the flow that works for you, but DO NOT...I REPEAT...DO NOT EDIT WHILE YOU ARE LETTING YOUR IDEAS FLOW. It's ONE or the OTHER at any given time. I know it sounds redundant that's cause I need you to understand; Your inner editor will take your writing DOWN if you let it come out too soon!