Recurring Questions [Draft & Redraft #12]
Weekly Guided Writing Sessions and Gentle Moves Toward Lit Mag Love
This is the twelfth session in this weekly series of short guided practices for writers.
Each week, you’ll return to (or create) a small piece of writing, then make one tiny, specific revision move so your work keeps developing over time.
You don’t need to have done previous sessions to join. All you need is your notebook or keyboard and a willingness to follow one question without rushing to solve it.
Today’s Focus: The questions your drafts keep circling.
There are often questions that follow us across drafts. They shape our lines, themes, scenes, and stanzas. No matter how much the topics, form, and ideas change, the questions are still there. (It’s a bit like the saying, “Wherever you go, there you are.”)
Today, you’ll work with the questions that keep circling your work. Then you’ll intentionally write into them and make tiny revision moves to help the question stay alive on the page, without rushing to resolve it.
The idea is to practice being interested and interesting, not being finished.
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Listen to the guided audio below:
