I hate typing in general. It reminds me of school work. But revision, once I get it typed out, I'm fine. I'm a bit of a perfectionist though and may continue revising something for months before the deadline, and I send it off, still not sure I've covered everything. I usually don't. It probably comes across as over-worked, because it is.
You know, you realize that the first five or six paragraphs of your first scene are stuffier than King Tut's tomb
This means I get to cut more, and type less. Which is good, "Kill your 'darlings.'"
someone points out that your main character's bipolarity suffers from borderline personality disorder
Well sometimes disorders can go hand in hand, people (as well as characters) can be misdiagnosed. I think one of my characters actually suffers the exact opposite of this. No one's pointed it out to me, yet, but reading Girl, Interrupted and knowing people with Bipolar Disorder, my character acts a lot more like the latter than the former. Unfortunately I don't have any personal experience with BPD, I
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Heh. My examples of things to revise were sort of hypothetical. :-)
I hate revising specifically because I'm afraid of my pieces feeling over-worked. Like I said, the more I revise, I feel like the choppier and choppier the piece becomes until it's really just several no longer fluid scenes stuck together in a single Word document. And nobody wants to read that, you know?
You know, you realize that the first five or six paragraphs of your first scene are stuffier than King Tut's tomb
This means I get to cut more, and type less. Which is good, "Kill your 'darlings.'"
someone points out that your main character's bipolarity suffers from borderline personality disorder
Well sometimes disorders can go hand in hand, people (as well as characters) can be misdiagnosed. I think one of my characters actually suffers the exact opposite of this. No one's pointed it out to me, yet, but reading Girl, Interrupted and knowing people with Bipolar Disorder, my character acts a lot more like the latter than the former. Unfortunately I don't have any personal experience with BPD, I ( ... )
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btw, love the T.S. Eliot quotage
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I hate revising specifically because I'm afraid of my pieces feeling over-worked. Like I said, the more I revise, I feel like the choppier and choppier the piece becomes until it's really just several no longer fluid scenes stuck together in a single Word document. And nobody wants to read that, you know?
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