Just walk away lady, walk away from your WIP right now. You're going to poke your own eye out if you keep it up.
There are times when you've edited, and edited, and then done a bit more editing just for a good time. But when does editing become dangerous? When you've over edited.
What do you mean over-editing? Is that even a real term? Who would ever do that?
Me, that's who.
I get on a roll and start ripping and tearing into the current story and then find that I've gone and torn its heart to shreds. There are times when I wish I had someone on the side lines with a bull horn telling me that I'm about to cross the line between professional and obsessed.
So right now I'm putting the WIP down. Letting it have a rest for a couple of days. I need the space to clear the noggin and get a better perspective of what I've been doing lately.
I took 40,000 words of the original story. Took out an entire subplot, filled in the world building, fixed up the dialogue. Gained 30,000 words in the process, then cut a bit more, backfilled in. And now I'm going through tearing out words like "kept", "just", "face", "looked", "gaze" etc. Finding better/more appropriate words to use for each one. My brain's threatening to shut down. I have to stop and take a big breath.
It's good to walk away, if only for a few days.
In the meantime my books have arrived that I ordered including Jenna Black's second one - the sequel to her really fantastic "Glimmerglass". I think I'll immerse myself in her gifted writing and get a few ideas from there.
Then I'll get back to the book and shred a few more words.
2 comments:
lol, I just had to do that with my Little Gems entry. I finally had to decide, ok, that's it, step away from the story and submit it :)
I know Kez, I need to step back for a few minutes and regroup with this WIP
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