When writing a story, especially long ones or even a novel, and you know there are things you’ll have to fix somewhere along the line, instead of going back and forth in your story to fix everything up, write it down! When I was writing a story that ended up being about 60-something pages, I had a piece of paper by my side labeled “To Fix.” Whenever I realized that something I just wrote didn’t match up with something previously written and I’d have to make changes, I wrote it down. If I needed more information to complete something, I wrote it down. Anything I needed to fix later went on that list. It was very helpful because a lot of the revisions I did when I finished the story were the topics that I had written down along the way and therefore cut down on the mistakes I had to look for. It is always good to get the story down on paper while you know where you’re headed and it’s fresh in your mind instead of stopping and fixing up everything along the way. So if you’re in the middle of writing a story and you find things you need to fix, make yourself a “To Fix” page – it makes later revisions much easier and you can just keep on working on that story!
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