Editing Blues.

Hey everybody! How are you all coming along with your novels. Mine is going great!
My only problem is editing. It's so hard not to go back through and edit.
I've tried waiting until I hit the day's word count, but when that happens I just stare at previous scenes that need to be edited and forget about writing. By the time I eventually drag myself through the 1667 it's late and I have to go to bed.

Any hints on how to forget about editing? How do you guys handle it?

I simply just keep plowing forward without proofreading what I've written so far (except for the obvious ones Word calls me out on). I may make a mental note of scenes I'll want to change later but I'm writing with the mindset of "Finish it first, then worry about going back and revising it".

It's pretty easy for me not to edit, because I'm handwriting the whole thing and I leave myself absolutely no space to do so. I highly recommend it. For me writing on the computer is just a temptation to highlight big chunks of text and hit the backspace key. As hard as it may seem, don't even read what you've written!

I'm using Liquid Storybinder with spellcheck and stuff turned off and I write by timed sequences. When I'm done, I scroll to the bottom of the screen so I'm not stuck/tempted to go back and look at what I write. I also have a very competitive nano buddy who is always daring me to beat her word count, so I find it easier to overlook the little 'glitches' when I'm having a word war or two with her.

I usually find that I write fairly cleanly for a first rough draft, so with the exception of a few typos, it's not too painful to read through it, come December.

I've gone through and entirely rewritten a few scenes after realising that hey, instead of X happening at the beginning, it would've been so much better if Y had happened. I'm pretending completely rewriting doesn't count as editing... >.>

I have been giving notes to myself in brackets like [something else should happen here because it is incomplete] or instead of deleting and rewriting, adding my new text afterwards in brackets or some other way so I will remember to review later which version I like better. So far I haven't had any trouble not editing. I guess it may just be easy for me to control that little troll inside my brain lol. I also do not have any spell check things popping up in the program I am using, and that helps when there are not red lines everywhere.

Haha, yeah I have quite a few minor characters named [insert name here]. that's going to get confusing in december. I'll probably end up changing most of their names anyway, cause most of them are awful, and quite a few seem to be named after some of my old teachers. oh well.
Getting better about kicking the editor out!
That I'm thankful for beacause now I'm on the downhill part of my story. Which means I need to jamm some more stuff in there. Stuff that will probably have little to no correlation to the current plot that's going on.