Sometimes as writers, we get so caught up in crafting beautiful sentences and creating a flow of ideas that we lose sight of the bigger picture—or what the story is really about.
Sometimes as writers, we get so caught up in crafting beautiful sentences and creating a flow of ideas that we lose sight of the bigger picture—or what the story is really about. In these moments, I ask myself, “What am I actually trying to say?” And I try to boil everything down to the simple, underlying concept. I’ll write really basic sentences to reflect that concept, which I can come back to and beautify later, if need be.