Today My Elephant Has Behaved

[pdragon76]

Which is nice, you know? Because when you're on annual leave and your only job is to sit in front of a blank screen every morning and push an elephant up a hill in a rickety wheelbarrow, then it helps when the bastard sits still.

THE LEE =

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[pdragon76]

Duuuuuude. Yes. Hope, ALWAYS. Otherwise, why keep going? Why even START in the first place? Your two little unforced fics? They are GIFTS from the writerly Gods, but they are not the natural state of things. The natural state of things is WORDS. And then more words. And then MORE. And then when you have enough words and are feeling very stupid or very brave, or a little of both, you RE-read them. And you cut that. And add this. And shift that. And re-write this. And cross that out. And alter that. And shave here. And change there.

And then when you are feeling very stupid or very brave again, or maybe both, you go back and RE-RE-read the wordies. And you cut that. And add this. And shift that. And re-write this. And cross that out. And alter that. And shave here. And change there.

And then if you haven't, by this stage, taken Dean's Glock out of the back of his fictitious pants and EATEN it, and you are feeling PARTICULARLY stupid, or brave, or both, you go back and RE-RE-RE-read the order of the wordies. And you...

You get the idea, right? *facepalm* Eventually you are either pleased with the order of the wordies, or just so plain exhausted with the whole thing you give up and post it anyway.

Now doesn't that sound like fun?

[saberivojo]

Oh, thank GOD. I was beginning to think I was the onliest one in the world who had yucky stuff sitting around. I thought it should come out kind of good and then get worked on to make it better. Not every time you know, but not one in twenty. Because one in twenty does not sound too good when one is ok and 19 are shit.

Thanks for the help. I think I shall try the Dragon's idea. Write words and words and words and then brave the editing process.

BTW, I am glad Dean has fictitious pants but that just gets my brain jump started in another way all together.