OK. Hell. I started a sentence six ways from Sunday just now, editing myself, so there ARE some times when editing is simply putting up a false front, right? Instead of saying what you want to actually want to say.
So here goes...yesterday I had a brain orgasm, editing the beginning paragraph to a scene that was workmanlike, acceptable, but no great shakes. It took me a while, I don't know, I kept coming back to it, maybe a couple of hours altogether, to get the words I wanted to, replacing the 'marker' words I had written initially to describe a scene in a way that engendered mood without making it obvious.
Damn, I love it when this happens.
How about you? We all talk about the slog parts, but have you had your important writing brain orgasm lately? (I'd love to say this comes in a daily dose, but for me, it doesn't. Mostly right now, I'm slogging.)
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Editing Orgasms (No, not that kind)
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I have to confess, I had a 'gleaming semen of fiction' moment about a month ago when I nailed five errant chapters.
At the moment, though, a dry spell.
I grip the shaft of my pen, but nothing comes.
Whirl, you just get better and better!
Robin, no, sadly, I have had no brain orgasms at all. I'm not sure my brain is wired that way. Maybe it's frigid. Maybe we need couples counselling.
I must be doing something wrong. My orgasms only last about 30 seconds- long enough for a couple sentences, maybe. So that's what my writing is like:
Blah blah blah blah. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. Bloody. Brilliant. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. blah blah blah. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah...
Whirl, licking the tip can get you great results.
Well, that was right adolescent.
Ha! You guys are a hoot.
Sorry I haven't been back around to visit on my own blog, you all. I feel like a crummy hostess. It's just I'm so slammed with writing and work and the season, I'm barely holding my head above the proverbial water.
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