Okay, draft revised. It went from two pages to one and a half just from cleaning up the prose. I'm a pretty good writer, but my early drafts (I wish I could say "first draft," but no) inevitably suck ice cubes through a garden hose. Why use one word when seven will do the trick? Why use active verbs when I can use inappropriate nominalizations? Why ( Read more... )

Last night I had a small vidding breakthrough. I was working on the revisions to the new vid; I'd read through renenet's beta comments and watched the vid myself and made a full page of notes about things that needed changing. Opened up Premiere, looked at the file, felt exhausted, defeated, overwhelmed: there's too much to do, I can't do this, this thing ( Read more... )

Revising a vid, I'm discovering, is rather like redecorating one's living room. Replace the ratty old sofa with a nice new one and suddenly the heretofore perfectly acceptable armchair looks aged and worn. Get a new armchair and now the space is demanding an area rug. Aquire the rug and discover that the old curtains don't match and will have to go ( Read more... )