Apr. 26th, 2005

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A night of thought and not much sleep. Arrived at a conclusion or two perhaps too private to record; I make things real for myself by writing them down, so there is a certain safety in the numinous. These things are of no actual use to me barring self-knowledge, which can only go so far. It has taken me years to understand that I do my best work in the throes of idiocy.

The air is oppressive this morning. I am quite looking forward to some rain.

Editing

Apr. 26th, 2005 01:44 pm
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Editing is such fun.

Let's start with Capital Letters used for the Start of every Sentence and of course for every Proper Name, and let's include the Pseudo-Shakespearian/Medieval habit of giving Every Important Thing a Capital Letter; and then let's not forget dear old colons for ones'* list: comma overuse, abuse, and underuse, in a very long sentence that could do with breaking up only when you do break it up it makes no sense anyway; and thank heavens for semi-colons; without them, my ellipses would get so lonely...

The good thing is that dealing with these tiny matters help me to ignore greater arse-biscuiterie, such as story, continuity, and dialogue.

I have been staring at this thing so long I'm virtually cross-eyed. Englang, my Englang, don't you wuv me any more?

*Dare I even mention apostrophe catastrophe?

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