Still editing. After a while, one’s brain hits overload.

by | Oct 19, 2014 | Journal | 8 comments

It’s the details you have to keep. Remembering. Weaving things in.

It’s like packing a suitcase full of snakes.

I’m down to the last quarter of the book. I’ve made it make sense.

I think.

8 Comments

  1. Tommie
    Tommie on October 19, 2014 at 5:56 pm

    Not to worry, real life doesn’t always make sense either. At least, not until later…

  2. chondrite
    chondrite on October 19, 2014 at 8:38 pm

    “Editing: It’s like packing a suitcase full of snakes.”
    I’m a gonna steal that line and send it to the FiL, a former editor.

  3. BlueCatShip
    BlueCatShip on October 19, 2014 at 11:37 pm

    If editing is like packing a suitcase full of gagh, then is it of benefit to eat one’s words?
    — Excerpt from Klingon Philosophies, Humors, and Epic Songs.

  4. WOL
    WOL on October 20, 2014 at 5:42 am

    I’d have said it was like trying to get 2-year-old quadruplets up and dressed in the morning. Or getting them to eat lunch. Or getting them to do anything.

    I can empathize a little bit. I’m knitting a baby afghan on the diagonal with two colors of yarn. I have to switch colors every two rows. Each color of yarn is a 1-pound skein’s worth which when wound into a ball makes a very big one — about 8 inches in diameter. (I hate pull skeins.) It’s going to be a “blankie” for a 3-year-old. I’m trying to get it finished by Christmas. I started it yesterday.

    Several people are reputed to have said, “God is in the details.” But then so is everything else. Hang in there.

  5. Lee and J.J. MacFadden
    Lee and J.J. MacFadden on October 21, 2014 at 2:53 pm

    We always find editing one of our toughest challenges. We self-edit as we go to limit the amount of editing done afterwards, but there’s always *something* that wasn’t done just right . . .

    Good luck, and hang in there.

  6. dagoski
    dagoski on October 21, 2014 at 6:27 pm

    This comforts me as I bring my second novel to a finish. My overall reaction to this is not “Yay! I wrote a novel!” It’s “My god! What is this mess? It’s worse than Spaghetti Code in FORTRAN 66.” Knowing that even pros go through this gives me some small hope. Thanks.

  7. CJ
    CJ on October 22, 2014 at 8:34 am

    I always say—write garbage, write any way you can, get through it. THEN the work starts. Edit brilliantly. And edit again. But don’t polish the life out of it.

  8. Neco-ji
    Neco-ji on October 26, 2014 at 10:40 am

    I have a very hard time sometimes making my writing make sense. I can create characters, but plots seem to evade me.

    Also, this my hello post. The very first one here. 🙂

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