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How many times have I started a new book, got far enough along to snatch a breath, to think "Phew, here we go, just getting into things nicely," glanced back over what I've done - and then ripped it all up and started again?

That would be none, actually. Not ever. Never.

Never till now.

*tears up a dozen pages, starts again*

In other news: there is a Ferrari parked on the corner. When I say 'on the corner', I mean this in a very literal sense: on the pavement, where it widens to swoop around the corner of the park. Presumably its owner doesn't want to risk the beautiful object in any legal parking spot, and so plants it where it can most inconvenience pedestrians but should be safe from accidental damage. Hmmph. I am not the kind of person who drags his keys along the flank of a costly car, just because it's there - but it is there, and it didn't ought to be, and much as I love Ferraris, I still wish someone in authority would come along and give it a ticket. But they won't.

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Date: 2006-11-12 04:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mizkit.livejournal.com
...at least you didn't get fifty pages into it before you did that? I kind of did that with the book I wrote this summer. I got to about ... 130 pages, I think (maybe only 90, but 130 sounds more accurate), realized it was all horribly screwed up and cut about 40 or something pages and rewrote whole huge chunks of what was left so I could go on. We hates that, we do.

Call the cops about the Ferrari!

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