navel-gazing, writerly speaking

Apr 24, 2005 22:35

I cut twenty-seven pages from Landscape five minutes ago ( Read more... )

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mahaliem April 25 2005, 06:42:16 UTC
Twenty-seven dead pages. I feel kind of like I lost some toes.

That makes sense because it is something of you, something you created and it is a loss. Even if cutting it is for the better, it's still a loss.

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seperis April 26 2005, 04:34:48 UTC
I cna't make myself restart quite yet. I mean, there's thecomfort in knowing that at least this time, I'll get it right--but God. Just knowing those pages are *there*....

*sighs* I can so get over this. It's just freaky.

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enderwiggin24 April 25 2005, 07:26:25 UTC
"Etwas zu beginnen erfordert Mut, etwas zu beenden noch mehr."
To start somethings requires a lot of bravery, to end something even more. (roughly translated from Germany)

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seperis April 26 2005, 04:35:25 UTC
ooh. I like that.

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issaro April 25 2005, 12:39:04 UTC
::pets::

I know the agony this part gave you but maybe now it won't be so hard to write. Good things will come of this. If nothing else, look at all the cookies you've got =)

PS - I see that comment about not finishing.

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svmadelyn April 25 2005, 21:44:01 UTC
I saw it too! *backs you up in case it goes "missing"*

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issaro April 25 2005, 23:54:28 UTC
Dude. Between the two of us? She has no hope. Wanna push for more sex while we're at it?

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seperis April 26 2005, 04:36:57 UTC
Thsi is officially a marathon. I will finish it, at this point just to prove I can. *looks determined*

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luthorienne April 25 2005, 17:00:44 UTC
It could make it easier to perform the amputation if you knew you might later be able to use the material in other ways. It's never wasted -- a good idea that didn't work in its present home is still a good idea, and might well prompt another story later.

When I write -- and I haven't, yet, in this fandom -- it's usually because I have a particular scene in mind. I did a whole novel (alas, still unpublished) based around one three-paragraph scene that just wouldn't fall out of my head until I'd written it.

The thing is, you're writing. You can't refine gold if you have no ore to process, right? So it's all good.

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seperis April 26 2005, 04:38:22 UTC
When I write -- and I haven't, yet, in this fandom -- it's usually because I have a particular scene in mind. I did a whole novel (alas, still unpublished) based around one three-paragraph scene that just wouldn't fall out of my head until I'd written it.

Yes! I thought I was the only one that got weirdly obsessed wiht one scene and have to build a story to see it. Whee!

The thing is, you're writing. You can't refine gold if you have no ore to process, right? So it's all good.

Yes. I am brave and I am refining ore here. That is how I will think of it. *very determined*

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