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Jan. 26th, 2010 07:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperanceI told you, I am sick and tired of revision.
I had only just embarked on the umpteenth revision of the new novel when back came a short story for revision, with editors' notes all over it. These are the kinds of editors who edit word by word, and have apparently taken a hate against the word "it".
So first I went through and responded to all their notes & comments, word by word; and then I went through the story on my own account, marking up my own revisions, because I hadn't actually been able to read it first time through, because Word-style comments just interrupt any attempt at actual reading; and now I've been trying to get all my own changes marked up, but I've been at it an hour and a half and I've only done ten pages and there are eighteen to go and I'm not going to finish tonight so fuck it. Stopping now. Am going downstairs, to have Big Drink and hate the world. And I would write a story called "It", only I get the feeling that's already been done.
I had only just embarked on the umpteenth revision of the new novel when back came a short story for revision, with editors' notes all over it. These are the kinds of editors who edit word by word, and have apparently taken a hate against the word "it".
So first I went through and responded to all their notes & comments, word by word; and then I went through the story on my own account, marking up my own revisions, because I hadn't actually been able to read it first time through, because Word-style comments just interrupt any attempt at actual reading; and now I've been trying to get all my own changes marked up, but I've been at it an hour and a half and I've only done ten pages and there are eighteen to go and I'm not going to finish tonight so fuck it. Stopping now. Am going downstairs, to have Big Drink and hate the world. And I would write a story called "It", only I get the feeling that's already been done.