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swan_tower) wrote2007-11-30 03:24 am
swan_tower) wrote2007-11-30 03:24 am
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dichotomy
Still copy-editing.
It's been two months or so since I looked at the book. Some bits, I find myself seeing with fresh eyes. Oh. Huh. Those two paragraphs really don't need to be there. Or, that dialogue echoes a nursery rhyme you really don't want in your readers' heads. Fix it.
Others? Are familiar beasts I've been battling with since the first time I committed them to the screen. And so I wrestle with them yet again, trying to find that one word that still eludes me -- the right word -- or how to make that paragraph flow the way it needs to.
Mostly I'm fighting with Tiresias. God damn. How many times have I chipped away at this stupid scene, trying to make the punch land right?
Note to self: don't put a crazed seer in a story EVER AGAIN. They are uncooperative bastards.
It's been two months or so since I looked at the book. Some bits, I find myself seeing with fresh eyes. Oh. Huh. Those two paragraphs really don't need to be there. Or, that dialogue echoes a nursery rhyme you really don't want in your readers' heads. Fix it.
Others? Are familiar beasts I've been battling with since the first time I committed them to the screen. And so I wrestle with them yet again, trying to find that one word that still eludes me -- the right word -- or how to make that paragraph flow the way it needs to.
Mostly I'm fighting with Tiresias. God damn. How many times have I chipped away at this stupid scene, trying to make the punch land right?
Note to self: don't put a crazed seer in a story EVER AGAIN. They are uncooperative bastards.
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And good luck with the edit. I'm fond of crazed seers, meself, but I don't envy having to write one...I rather look forward to reading about one, though. :)
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