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Would you finish then edit, or backtrack then finish?
Kali:
Unanimity. I'm flattened by it!
Finish, it is! Well, I'll write the big scene and then finish, since the big scene would fit in only a little bit back (at the worst possible moment for the main character, naturally), then finish, then do the top-to-bottom edit with an eye toward fitting in the hints and tidbits.
Y'know, I knew that's what I should do. It's what I would have advised someone else to do. I'm being distracted by a plot bunny.
Starbeam:
I've found that it often helps to see what other people would say cause then it makes you step back and look at it in the same sorta way. I have the same problem with getting too focused on this or that and not being able to pull myself away from it. Plus there's always the fact that people are good at giving advice and horrible at listening to it for themselves.
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
If it were me I would sketch the ending in outline and then go back and fix everything.
This is sufficiently much because of the way I work, though, that I am not offering it with any confidence as advice to anyone else.
Snowleopard:
Every writer works differently. You just have to find your rhythm, so to speak.
Breandan:
I do a strange mix between the two, often going back over what I have written after I break a bout of writer's block, reading it aloud to my wife (helps me find errors and quirky sentences), and editing accordingly. Then I pick back up and continue on. The edits I do are generally minor, though. I know I will have to go back and completely overhaul the prologue, and at least the first two chapters before I show it to an agent or publisher :D
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