Susan, the speed sounds to me rather more as if they aren't taking stuff at the moment, period.
'Objects In Space'
The Great Write Way
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
This is how ill I am. I think I should be writing, but I did one paragraph that sucks out loud so I'm thinking I'll like never touch my word processor again. But at the exact same minute, I'm paging through a paperback thinking "Dude, I could take her." Cause it's one of those women who is thinking she's deep and fucked up, when really, that's life, huh? I know more fucked-up stuff than she does. And I think I'm funnier, too. Sigh. Is there a program for people like me?
Is there a program for people like me?
Other than the Witness Protection Program?
Just Buffistas.
You can take her. I just read a suggestion to combat perfectionism by typing with your monitor off. The woman doesn't turn it back on till she's well into the piece (whatever it may be.)
I'm toying with trying it myself, because I torture myself with each sentence. AINFG.
You can take her. I just read a suggestion to combat perfectionism by typing with your monitor off. The woman doesn't turn it back on till she's well into the piece (whatever it may be.)
I do this. Well, not turning the monitor off, but there are certain things - cover letters are a big example - that I will sometimes write with my eyes closed.
wow... That would be so ugly.
No, not you...I just don't type all that well, even after all this time.
Is there a program for people like me?
Writers Anonymous? I think there are very few writers who don't feel that way at times. The whiplash between "Everything I write is ashes" and "That simile-ridden, cliche-filled piece of crap got pubished? I could write better than that at the end of a three-day bender" is a pretty common injury.
Since I just got turned down by Hodder Uk because Weaver is "too gentle" or some shite, I'm all about the derisive snorting right now.
And yup. Astarte's totally right about the whiplash, although I'm generally a pretty confident writer.
Cause it's one of those women who is thinking she's deep and fucked up, when really, that's life, huh?
I'm experiencing that in my writing class. One woman is reading from her novel-in-progress, which people are fucking PRAISING, when all I can think is: (1) "You are the Mary Sue of PAIN, sweetheart," and (2) "You're not the only one who's experienced shit in her life, sweetheart."
But then I think perhaps I'm terribly mean.