WIP Wednesday

Ummm..it's the second Wednesday of the month...and this is my first blog post of the month...sigh...where does the time go?

FINALLY finished my latest round of edits on Elixir Bound. Over the years I have gotten much better at revising, but I still wouldn't say I like doing it. I love the thrill of a new idea, letting it marinate in my brain, the tendrils growing into a plot and characters. Furtive moments of writing snippets in my notebook because I just can't help but get these thoughts on paper. The possibilities are wide open, no disappointment that the words fall short of the image in my mind.

Revision is a slow slog though the vomit of words that made it to the manuscript, have been pored over a million times, and still don't quite meet expectations. If I have to transform another HAD, WAS, THAT into more interesting language, I might just (oh, JUST is another one of those words I'm trying to cut out!) throw my computer through the kitchen slider.

Wait, what am I talking about? I've been waiting years to work with an editor on my manuscript to whip it into publishable shape. In that case, I LOVE revising. Too bad I can't stop thinking about that new story...the one I haven't even officially started writing yet. I look forward to the day I am sick of that story!