Posts Tagged ‘ artistic suffering ’

Belittling, That’s What It Is

July 18, 2010
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Emasculating. Humiliating. I broke my own blog. For hours on end, and needed the rescue of a marvelous friend to fix it. I felt like such a fraud. I don’t think I’m an expert, but I do tend to think I’m better at internet-things than that. You know how self-doubt always brings friends? I...
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There’s a Song about Editing

March 28, 2010

There’s a saying, and now a country song, that goes “If you’re going through hell, keep on going.” Yes, I know I said I enjoy editing. And I do–most of the time. But there’s a reason Holly Lisle calls this part the “manuscript slog.” [Disclaimer--this may not actually be the way editing goes for...
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Yesterday I Wrote

May 4, 2009

Yes, actual words. By me. On my steampunk story. I’m still waiting to see if I can do it again. After work, grocery shopping, and swimming, I’m not sure I’ve got it in me. But…note to self (again): when you’re going crazy, hating life and everything in it–for God’s sake, WRITE!! That is all.
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Frustration

June 20, 2006

It was just one number.  I changed one little number from a five to a four, pushing one of the defining moments in Eve’s life back a year. Then I had to change one more number, that was connected to the first number. Then I realized I’d changed the entire history of my galaxy,...
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Taro had some deep-seated need to be yelled at, preferably by someone who swore well. And if the person yelling had the authority to kick him out of somewhere or set him to hard physical labor for being a mouthy little shit, so much the better. — Rafe, His Faithful Squire

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