Tuesday, January 12, 2016

The Mysteries of Editing

A busy day...this and that; chores for my son's school took up most of the day, but did manage to squeeze in about two hours on the stories...a bit frustrated with the amount of rewriting some of them seem to demand, but I know that's pretty normal.  Chris Rock put it the most eloquently perhaps; you start out with a first draft and everything sucking, and it takes a long time "to get past the suck."  I think I've gotten past it with some of the stories, maybe even, the majority of them...but how many of them are really going to spread their wings and fly onto the pages of some magazine, or get published in a book?

How the hell should I know?  I'm just sweeping out the garbage.





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