Wah.

[smokingboot]

It's no good.

Hacking away at this thing, wincing at it and wondering if I took too many drugs when writing it or too few.*

I always tell people, 'Editing is easier.' Someone remind me to stick a cake in my ear the next time I say that. Yes, it's easier but it's really slow when total re-writing is part of it. And it is. Because I appear to have written the entire thing with my left foot.

You know, this may just be no damn good.

Maybe this is a sugar low. Maybe I'm down cos my boyfriend is in Switzerland. Maybe I'm just really tired. Or maybe it is true poo.

Wa wa wa.

I need chocolate.

*Alas, only caffeine. Maybe that's the problem...

Comments

[nyarbaggytep.livejournal.com]

Stop that *slaps face*. You're clearly delirious. Have a nice warm bath and a cup of herby char and then think about something else for a while. If the first thing you think when you go back to trying to read it is negative, repeat process. Eventually you will either be a prune, or brilliant, or possibly both.

If you want a second opinion on it, giz a shout.

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

*laughs like a drain!* Thank you!

You are right. Bathtime and nice tea sound great. Then I will play with the kittens who think I have been a terrible bore all day. And I will start again tomorrow.

Re the second opinion, thank you for the offer; you may well be hearing from me very soon...

[scary-lady.livejournal.com]

You have voiced the opinion "editing is easier" several times on Wednesdays. Please don't do so tomorrow due to a total lack of available cake. Back on Atkins, you see.

If the whole "boyfriend in Switzerland" thing is getting you down, then you could always come to the WI with Em & I tonight? It'll make you feel incredibly young, which is always a good thing.

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

Thank you, I would love to come (honestly, despite your horror stories about the Great Walker) but I had really better get this thing sorted. It will be OK, I just have to get on with it!

[november-girl.livejournal.com]

I hate editting too. *sympathy*

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

Usual editing I can handle; it's the necessity for total re-writing that's driving me mad. God, what was I on?

[november-girl.livejournal.com]

I hope you're not deleting the original - just in case you look back and think that you shouldn't have changed it. I can't imagine how awful that would be.

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

That has happened to me before; I twiddled with stuff so much that it fell to bits in front of me like an onion. It's something I don't seem to be able to resist with poetry, which is why I'm no good at it.

With this I'm slightly safer, because I have lots of copies.
*famous last words!*

[bytepilot.livejournal.com]

Mmmm Cake.