Okay, I guess I’ve been a slacker. The last time I wrote about my doings was nearly a month ago.
It’s been a busy month though. I finished the latest draft of my novel Panic No More, and I beta read a pornographic dinosaur novel by the irreverentĀ t’Sade. No, really. It’s a fun read if you aren’t easily offended by sex and violence.
The big reason I haven’t written is the tedium of the revision process. I feel like I put in solid work day after day, but like staring at one of those magic-eye prints, eventually everything starts to blur together. And honestly, I can never see those 3D images.
At this point, I feel itchy. I want to just submit the thing, and let the chips fall where they may. Damn the torpedos, full speed ahead! This is a very bad thing to do. Madness.
In this situation, there is an easy, sensible thing to do. I set aside the revision. I can do a read-through again, much later, when I’m feeling sane, some time in the far future when I can get discounts on McDonald’s coffee. Of course, this slows the process another notch, but this is the way it must happen. In that promised tomorrow, things will make sense. I’ll find the humor and drama in my own words. I will put in all those intricate little moments that will make the story great. But only when it is time.
It doesn’t leave me with a lot to write about.
Editing is one of those horrid things that never gives me the feeling of completion. At least when writing chapters, I can get to the end and say “I did something” where editing is such small little things (and fries you out) that I don’t really get that endorphin rush. I’ll admit, that is probably one reason I’m paying an editor so I don’t do it, ignore the fact that I miss *lots* even when I set it aside.
Expensive though.
But, I know it’s going to be fantastic when it comes out.