Damn Interesting

[tapetum]

The writing task of the week is final edit of my articles for the Damn Interesting book. Or more accurately, the final edit of one article and the complete rewrite of the other. I'm having to overcome a lot of personal resistance to wanting to rewrite the second article. Back when I first wrote it, I really liked it - but it was hard to write

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[nmaki]

Rewrites are so hard! Especially when the path from there to here has bumps along the way as this one did.

Remember Myth of a Perfect Baby? That was my second one. The first one died in a computer malfunction and I didn't think a new version would measure up. I had written the original the first day of the contest and the rewrite the last day because I just didn't want to go through the motions again.

When's your deadline? I thought Jason said things were pretty close to done.

[tapetum]

The deadline (revised -it used to be the 1st) is the twelfth. So my goal is to get this done and back to them today or tomorrow at the latest.

Rewriting if I've got something acceptable in an original version isn't that hard for me - but if the acceptable version has vanished into the ether is tortorous.