A few years ago I decided to put my stories together into a collection. I pulled them out, lined them up, read the whole thing and walked away
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If it's any consolation, I never hit self-imposed deadlines either.
Working very quickly works (for me, anyway) when I'm writing something new, but fails miserably when it comes to revisions. You just have to put the hours in sometimes, and to hell with all the other things in life like friends, a social life, loved ones...
The neverending process of revision: that's the moment when I realise that what I thought was a work of deathless brilliance is in fact an unguilded turd.
Scenes to excise and rewrite, scenes to add, inconsistencies to iron out, extraneous words, revising the balance of scenes and overall flow...it's endless. And I revise the writing a LOT: probably close to a hundred times by the time it's at what I consider to be the finished product. By which time I hate it with a passion and never want to see it again. I'm sure you're familiar with that feeling.
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Working very quickly works (for me, anyway) when I'm writing something new, but fails miserably when it comes to revisions. You just have to put the hours in sometimes, and to hell with all the other things in life like friends, a social life, loved ones...
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Nice to have you back online, Peter.
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Scenes to excise and rewrite, scenes to add, inconsistencies to iron out, extraneous words, revising the balance of scenes and overall flow...it's endless. And I revise the writing a LOT: probably close to a hundred times by the time it's at what I consider to be the finished product. By which time I hate it with a passion and never want to see it again. I'm sure you're familiar with that feeling.
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