Jama's throwing a Cookie Party!
And because I'm working on revisions. Which are going well, thanks for asking. It's amazing to me how you can think you have your novel good and finished and solid, and then, when you revise, you find yourself stepping clear through the rotten place in the floor that you tried to disguise with a throw rug. Then, to mix up my metaphors a bit, you have to tear off each ratty piece of emergency duct tape, rip up all those temporary train tracks you laid, and return every set of crutches you borrowed from the Author Care Store. Which would all be so easy, if only the bad words didn't look just the same as the good ones!!!
Hang in there, Sara! If that little grain of sand wasn't so annoying, it wouldn't become a pearl! Now's the time to use the literary muscles from all your writing push-ups! You're in my thoughts!
ReplyDeleteI hope you're wearing your Mickey Mouse ears while revising. Sending you some virtual dark chocolate chunk cookies to get you through the day :).
ReplyDeleteYou guys make me want to do pushups in Mickey Mouse ears while eating chocolate chunk cookies instead of writing!
ReplyDeleteBut seriously, thanks for the encouragement. It does help.
Aw, man. I second the "hang in there." If it's any consolation to you, even just the zippy-quick posts you rattle off about how you're struggling to write/revise are interesting and full of kickin' metaphors. If I could write just five sentences like that, I'd be all patting myself on the back, thinking I rock, considering myself just "done" in life, artistically....but then that's just a post for you and you're writing A WHOLE BOOK like that.
ReplyDeleteOff to experience this cookie post of which you speak....
I agree! The more I write, the less attached to my words I become.
ReplyDeleteI wrote something the other day and tossed the entire thing into my virtual garbage can so that I could begin all over again with a clean piece of virtual paper. Sometimes repairing is harder and more painful than rewriting.
Oh, honey...
ReplyDeleteI have a whole storeroom of throw rugs over here and blast it! everytime I fall through the floor in the end. Throw rugs do not a walkway make. Sigh.
HANG IN, BREATHE DEEP and enjoy the fact that you're writing a better book...
Oh, honey...
ReplyDeleteI have a whole storeroom of throw rugs over here and blast it! everytime I fall through the floor in the end. Throw rugs do not a walkway make. Sigh.
HANG IN, BREATHE DEEP and enjoy the fact that you're writing a better book...
To me it seems like novel-writing isn't one skill, but a whole troupe of different skills all forced to work together. Imagining, plotting, character shaping, writing, crafting, editing. But there's only room for one or two on the shop floor at any one time. Only when the mighty story genie has been shut back up in his lamp do the editing elves dare to come out.
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