This is so, so, so exciting. My hopes are with you for continued messy, painful, glorious productivity! (And doesn't that just sound like childbirth o.O)
Wouldn't that have to be the editing process? As in:
You've done it! You have written this book! It is done! Only to find out that no, it is not done, because there are things that need re-written and the editor doesn't really care for this and oh right, there's that gaping plot-hole that you never got around to fixing in the first draft, and damn it! This is like writing the book all over again!
The hole in this logic is that the second version is, in fact, something that is generally positive, whereas only weirdos are excited about the placenta.
By extension though, the placenta is a super source of stem cells. And editing can leave you with all sorts of little germs of stories that just didn't have a place in the book. So there's that.
And this is exactly what I'm doing, complete with dragging through the mud. *sniffle*
"The story picks fights with me. It doesn't want to go where I want it to go. I run into logic flaws. Sometimes I need the characters to do something, and only realize when I get there that they would never do that. There isn't always room for everything I want to include, and things get shelved or cut or, best case scenario, put off until later. Sometimes a scene just isn't going well, and I don't know why, and I'm stuck either figuring out what's wrong, tearing it down, and rebuilding it, or pushing through and fixing it in post. Once in a while, I'm just scared of a scene. Some scenes are scary. This whole part of the book is scary, actually. I'm not sure I've built it right, if everyone's motivations seem clear, and the amount of trust they are willing to place in one another -- or withhold from one another -- seems reasonable."
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I'm sorry, my brain goes weird places.
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You've done it! You have written this book! It is done! Only to find out that no, it is not done, because there are things that need re-written and the editor doesn't really care for this and oh right, there's that gaping plot-hole that you never got around to fixing in the first draft, and damn it! This is like writing the book all over again!
The hole in this logic is that the second version is, in fact, something that is generally positive, whereas only weirdos are excited about the placenta.
By extension though, the placenta is a super source of stem cells. And editing can leave you with all sorts of little germs of stories that just didn't have a place in the book. So there's that.
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And this is exactly what I'm doing, complete with dragging through the mud. *sniffle*
"The story picks fights with me. It doesn't want to go where I want it to go. I run into logic flaws. Sometimes I need the characters to do something, and only realize when I get there that they would never do that. There isn't always room for everything I want to include, and things get shelved or cut or, best case scenario, put off until later. Sometimes a scene just isn't going well, and I don't know why, and I'm stuck either figuring out what's wrong, tearing it down, and rebuilding it, or pushing through and fixing it in post. Once in a while, I'm just scared of a scene. Some scenes are scary. This whole part of the book is scary, actually. I'm not sure I've built it right, if everyone's motivations seem clear, and the amount of trust they are willing to place in one another -- or withhold from one another -- seems reasonable."
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