Method writing
On days I write, I always have something to say here. On days I edit, … *tumbleweed rolls by*
I suppose this makes sense, but it doesn’t make for an interesting diary. So, yesterday was like a night of “method writing,” and I was all pumped up and agitated when I finished writing. That was good, because the character was in the same state at that point in the story.
But today, editing the same piece is academic, detached, workmanlike. Of course, this isn’t the round of editing where you go through it like a swashbuckler and just slash and burn through everything. This is the clean-up round, but I’m still way too attached to what I wrote for the critical pass. That will come much later.
It’s hard to start dancing around the room because you submerged 15 instances of the word “I,” making the story a better read. Important, just not interesting…
Oh well…
Peace,
Jeff
