/lit/ - Literature

Dean Wesley Smith: Is he full of shit? On the one hand he's obviously a grifter that make money selling expensive writing classes to insecure people. He has like 200 books most of which sell like one copy a month on amazon and he openly talks about how he just fires of one every two weeks then doesn't look at them ever again.

On the other hand, his thing about not doing revisions, using only the creative rather than the critical side of the brain feels like it has some merit. I'm on draft six of a book and it's fucking killing me. Getting after it with the microscope is frustrating as shit and I'm certain now that some of my re-writing has indeed made the book worse than the original drafts. How much re-writing do you typically do?