The other part of Mudering Your Darlings

... But I promise you, you wouldn't be in that position of revising, of finding it worth it to weed out your mistakes, if what ...Don't forget to be proud of yourself for finishing a story, for revising, for querying (even if all you get is rejections), or for anything ... the first place. I hope that when you finish re-reading or revising your manuscript for the thousandth time, that you smile at the end...

WIP: Though They Sink Through the Sea (1/3)

...: 2,100 for this part WARNING (highlight to view spoiler): Character death—although it's not Penny or Sheldon. NOTE: This story is still a work in progress. I may end up revising this part at some point, or not at all. THANKS: To untherapy for the plot bunny over at Paradox, ninamazing for epic fangirl love and juniperlane for morale boosting. And to Dylan ...

Eddie Izzard Does Not Appreciate Your Threat To His Negative Face.

... actually been staying in bed until ten for the past couple of days (it's late for me ) because I can't face getting up and confronting all that revision. So I don't like revising. On the other hand, I like updating my Livejournal, and typing out and rephrasing the things I've learnt will probably help me get them clear in my head. Conversation Analysis (not Communication Analysis, but ...

May 5th, 1982

...I heard some of the Gryffindors talkin' about maybe usin' the pitch tonight, so you'd better move fast if you want some space!" Bridget said. He reconsidered. "Never mind, here all night. Hope you're not revising," he joked. Bridget made a face. "Are you kidding? I just spent two hours with my nose in my Transfiguration book. I think I'm all revised out for the night," she said. You could go ...

Revision Tip #5 & love from Missouri

... words. What. Happens. Next. Stories are supposed to flow like a river, not remain still while your character treads water neck-deep in a pool of exposition. One of the fun things about revising is figuring out how to make the story move forward while slipping in those little bits of backstory that contribute to the reader's understanding of the character. For me this often winds up being a ...

Just a little fairy dust...

... & the stupid printer that no one's comp likes anyway. # 06:51 Since I have to be up in 2 hours to run to the bank anyway, just going to stay up & do some more office clean up & revising. 1st, breakfast. # 06:57 have to admit, wondering how long this industriousness will last. Back is starting to ache a bit again, so I suspect not long. :P # 08:03 Time to do a little more office ...

... It's easy for most, I think, you get married and maybe have a kid or maybe start a true career rather than a series of wage-earning jobs. I don't know, really, what the next step is beyond revising "Desperadoes" and seeing where it takes me. I mean, I've finally realized that I don't really want to be in a Romantic relationship, I have no desire to be a boyfriend or, ick, husband or father. At ...

Bumper sticker crit

My Kentucky Death Penalty paper is done and I'm now working on revising and polishing my Race and Law paper on Muslims and Arabs after September 11th. In doing this I've been doing a lot of reading, some of it interesting and some of it damn infuriating. Much of it has been in critical race theory which despite the name is not so much a theory but a school of thought focusing on the use of ...

The stories not written

... way the unruly story one is actually writing cannot. The stories we choose to tell, for me at least, are messier, more imperfect things than the ones we imagine telling and set aside. But one of the sometimes-hard things about revising is that even so you have to commit, and let those other stories go--free them up to haunt the story in subtle ways, rather than to be told in more direct ones.

Happy Yule Balls, qurinas!

...felt her cheeks heating up even more. "I think so." Revising was never Lavender's strong suit, but she really ...s something we learn in Ravenclaw to help us with revising. There's nothing to be afraid of." "I'm... back at Cho. "You're very serious about revising then, aren't you?" "Well, of course I am,"...you'll teach me. This has been the best revising session I've ever had." Cho responded with a...