Lessons We Keep Learning

[rsadelle]

I have now learned the same lesson twice while working on the same story: just because I wrote something down doesn't mean it has to stay that way. I don't know why this is so difficult with this particular story. I know that you can rewrite and rework things. And yet with this particular story, once I write something I seem to think that's the way it has to be. Once I let go of that and just changed the things that needed to be changed, it worked much better.

What lessons, writing or otherwise, do you keep learning?