Update on the ow, of various sorts
Jun. 7th, 2006 12:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lagilmanMoving slowly, but without overmuch creaking, groaning or wincing. And, wonder of wonders, no bruises.
I've eaten a Lindt bar to celebrate.
in other owie news, I am staring at my manuscript, being reminded of a meeting I had with a client yesterday. Going over a project, I told her that, when faced with redundant phrases,, it's 80% safer to stick with what you wrote first. Unless you write the second one and go 'oh, that's e'er so much better,' the second iteration rarely trumps the energy and freshness of the first. You can always revise it to satisfaction later.
Physicians make the worst patients, I'm told.
*grumbles, hits delete key, moves on*
Am in the slow, cautious, cleaning-up-and-therefore-not-so-much-fun part of the writing right now. I wish I could sharecrop this part out, I really do...
(or, failing that, have my own in-house editor to kick my ass. I can't seem to do that for myself, and I'm in dire need of it today, I suspect.)
*grabs another diet coke, slinks off-line*
I've eaten a Lindt bar to celebrate.
in other owie news, I am staring at my manuscript, being reminded of a meeting I had with a client yesterday. Going over a project, I told her that, when faced with redundant phrases,, it's 80% safer to stick with what you wrote first. Unless you write the second one and go 'oh, that's e'er so much better,' the second iteration rarely trumps the energy and freshness of the first. You can always revise it to satisfaction later.
Physicians make the worst patients, I'm told.
*grumbles, hits delete key, moves on*
Am in the slow, cautious, cleaning-up-and-therefore-not-so-much-fun part of the writing right now. I wish I could sharecrop this part out, I really do...
(or, failing that, have my own in-house editor to kick my ass. I can't seem to do that for myself, and I'm in dire need of it today, I suspect.)
*grabs another diet coke, slinks off-line*
