Saturday, September 27, 2008

welcome to the next level

I seem to be a little over-vehement with the pencils this morning.—John Steinbeck

Not long after my last post, I was leafing through an old journal of mine, and I realized something: I started revising this novel in January. January. Nine whole months ago, nine months I’ve spent revising the first half of the book. ... Which launched several days of feeling acutely irritable and frustrated with myself. It took only six crazy months to draft the novel in its entirety; why is it taking so long to re-write it?

And if I really think about it, I can come up with enough answers to almost satisfy myself: I’m learning all the time; my characters have become fifty times more dynamic and interesting; and my sister got married, for goodness’ sake, and that will mess with a writing schedule… etc. etc. But I was still left with all those calendar pages devoted to rewrites.

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Posted by Jenn Langefeld on 09/27 at 02:47 PM
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