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[chomp]

I went to Ikea this weekend and had to wait to pick up an item, so I sat down. As I was waiting, I saw someone--a kid, most likely--had written this on the side of the waiting area with one of the free pencils:

I hate my brother and Ikea.

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[scanner_darkly]

That's awesome.

[jukebox_heroine]

It is the exact opposite for me.

[valree]

that made me and the randor laugh out loud.

[inoah]

Heh! Maybe this should be crossposted to found_notes. Although usually people post photographs. Anyway, that group is a fun read. Awesome find!

[scanner_darkly]

Hey, I can't seem to get your address, so these are the answers to the questions the student had. I hope you don't mind me posting them here. At any rate, here they are:

QUESTIONS FOR THE WRITER:

What do you do when you reread what you’ve written and
you don’t like it except for the original theme, but
you don’t want to rewrite it?

You put it away for a while. Sometimes after a few weeks or months, you can look at something you wrote and see just a few things you need to change and change those. Sometimes you see more flaws than before, and have to scrap it, but you can still use the ideas in another story.

Revising old drafts is an important skill to have as a writer. Nothing ever comes out perfect, and all the novels you've read are often fourth or fifth drafts. It was also the hardest thing for me to learn to do. I just had this idea that things should come out perfect the first time through, and if it didn't, I should scrap it and start on something else, as I've obviously failed at what I set out to do.

How does you deal