i miss a day and end up real confused, sometimes
hey dudeskeys, remember when thehighwaywoman posted the claims today! loved going through them. so crazily excited for the greatest bb ever!
machined through two huge betas today and my beta shop is officially closed. i would love to do more, but i still have tons of work to do on mine and tomorrow i am gonna focus and hopefully get tons of work done!
so tired. burned on today. haven't been getting a lot of sleep. lovelies, thanks for the virtual cookies. i truly adore you. you cheer me up constantly.
also, speaking of being cheered up! YALL. ok #1, being involved with spnroundtable's ask the author feature was @$*#)% AWESOMESAUCE and i am so grateful thank you nananana i love you, but #2 so many people commented and like had tons of questions and tolerated my long blathering responses and just MADE ME FEEL SO GOOD and it was wonderful and thank you so much to everybody who participated, seriously. SERIOUSLY. i loved it.
ok and last, in honor of May = revision month;
latest edition to my library of books on writing is the daily writer by fred white, which is a great book with tons of fantastic prompts and brief studies. one topic is titled "the art of revising," and begins as follows:
"'Writing is rewriting,' asserted the late Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and professor of English, Donald M. Murray. To put it another way, rewriting is an inevitable stage in the writing process, unless you are one of those rare prodigies who can revise in your head and not put a word to paper until you have it just right."
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"'My first draft,' Susan Sontag writes, 'has only a few elements worth keeping.' Experienced writers take for granted that much of what comes out as a rough draft will have to be revamped, even discarded - but that does not mean the writing was a waste of time. On the contrary, without the rough draft, nothing productive could have followed."
congrats on being at this stage of the game and good luck on your edits, fellow writers. revise revise revise! build! work! dream! create! /earl nightingale
machined through two huge betas today and my beta shop is officially closed. i would love to do more, but i still have tons of work to do on mine and tomorrow i am gonna focus and hopefully get tons of work done!
so tired. burned on today. haven't been getting a lot of sleep. lovelies, thanks for the virtual cookies. i truly adore you. you cheer me up constantly.
also, speaking of being cheered up! YALL. ok #1, being involved with spnroundtable's ask the author feature was @$*#)% AWESOMESAUCE and i am so grateful thank you nananana i love you, but #2 so many people commented and like had tons of questions and tolerated my long blathering responses and just MADE ME FEEL SO GOOD and it was wonderful and thank you so much to everybody who participated, seriously. SERIOUSLY. i loved it.
ok and last, in honor of May = revision month;
latest edition to my library of books on writing is the daily writer by fred white, which is a great book with tons of fantastic prompts and brief studies. one topic is titled "the art of revising," and begins as follows:
"'Writing is rewriting,' asserted the late Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and professor of English, Donald M. Murray. To put it another way, rewriting is an inevitable stage in the writing process, unless you are one of those rare prodigies who can revise in your head and not put a word to paper until you have it just right."
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"'My first draft,' Susan Sontag writes, 'has only a few elements worth keeping.' Experienced writers take for granted that much of what comes out as a rough draft will have to be revamped, even discarded - but that does not mean the writing was a waste of time. On the contrary, without the rough draft, nothing productive could have followed."
congrats on being at this stage of the game and good luck on your edits, fellow writers. revise revise revise! build! work! dream! create! /earl nightingale