TODAY’S QUESTIONS
Do you edit your work before posting it?
Apart from correcting typos and spellings , how much (if any) of a post do you change before you send it out in the world?
Do you think that re-drafting a piece can “rob” it of its spontaneity?
MY ANSWERS
Do you edit your work before posting it?
Hardly ever. I just do a quick scan for spelling mistakes and typos.
Apart from correcting typos and spellings , how much (if any) of a post do you change before you send it out in the world?
Usually none at present. There isn’t usually a very long interval between composing a piece and hitting the schedule or post button.
Do you think that re-drafting a piece can “rob” it of its spontaneity?
I think there is no right answer (or no wrong one) to this question . It depends entirely on the particular instance. When I am writing in response to a prompt or doing a piece on a current issue, I will usually not re-draft. If I come back to a post that I have drafted some time ago, I will probably edit or re-draft it.
What do you think ? I would love to know.
Salted Caramel 
Nope, I don’t re-draft my posts, is already taking me a long time to make some 🥲 I do check them for typo errors thou before hitting the publish button 😉
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Here are my thoughts: https://sparksfromacombustiblemind.com/2021/07/12/blogging-insights-editing-7-12-2021/ Thanks, Dr. Tanya! ☺
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Thank you 🌷
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Same here.
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Depends on the piece but I generally do a lot of editing
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Hats off to you 🙂
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😎
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Here’s mine
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Thanks 🌷
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It will post tomorrow right after midnight. A better question might be “how do you know when a post is ready for publication? Since perfection is impossible, at what point do you make the decision that “NOW” is the right time?
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I agree that your version of the question works very well too.
Do I have your permission to use it for a later installment of Blogging Insights?
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I usually wait a few hours to a day before publishing something. Walk away and come back to it to see if it is really what I wanted to post.
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Good idea to let it rest .
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I used to write everything in a word document [2017/18], then correct it and then cut and paste. But from 2019, l started writing direct in the editor and making a quick spell check then publishing but then spend twenty minutes tidying up after l had published, but that’s not really professional. Now, l write everything in the draft folder, once it is done, l save to draft, preview, copy the document in preview and paste into a Word document, check the spellings, edit and correct, then transfer the document corrections into the draft copy, preview and read the finished document and press publish.
Occasionally even now, l still see a few errors that the correction edit missed.
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When I first started blogging, I would write in Word and then copy and paste it on to WordPress.
With time, I gained the confidence to begin in the drafts folder of my blog.
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It really depends on the post I am writing but for the most part I usually just check for spelling errors. 🙂
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Likewise 🌻
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