Comments | chant_1: Progress like a dance

chant_1

Progress like a dance

Mar 14, 2011 11:24

I was doing really well on my revisions for a while ( Read more... )

real life, revisions, cm, writing

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jongibbs March 14 2011, 17:06:18 UTC

Welcome back, Kim :)

chant_1 March 14 2011, 20:34:53 UTC

Thanks, Jon. Now if only I could figure out how to stay.

ex_triciasu March 14 2011, 20:35:19 UTC

I'm so glad you're back working on it, even if the work is...well, workish. Sending healing thoughts to your MIL, and *hugs* to all your family.

chant_1 March 14 2011, 21:11:53 UTC

You and me both! I was being consumed by guilt about not working on it. I made myself little computerized post-it notes, forbidding myself from going online until I worked on CM. And, as I do when I am forbidden from something, I became defiant, flipped myself the bird, and went online anyway. BAD writer! But I was in one of those uncreative funks anyway, so I don't imagine any good would have come of forcing myself. (Shut up. That's my story, and I'm sticking with it!) But I just was telling Renee, I'm not sure if it was this distance, or if I picked up again at a rough spot, but I was reading it and going "This is AWFUL! Who do you think you're kidding? Trash, pure and simple!" and then after a while, I was like "OK, it isn't really that bad, and I actually like this bit, here." Which is another relief in itself. Because disliking your own book is a little like disliking your own child; we all know it happens, but it just feels wrong.

Thanks for the healing thoughts and hugs, they are always welcome and much