Ladychipmunk's third? assignment

[ladychipmunk]

I know I need to do this but I just can't bring myself to do the re-write right now. All very good points made but I feel like I am slogging through mud right now and all I hear is the giant sucking sound my feet are making as I try to lift them

I even started cleaning the basement. (That's how bad it is. BTW I HATE cleaning the basement!)

Working on working on it.......

[Ruby]

Hi LC,

You've been battered and bruised over a wonderful story.
A rewrite isn't in order, just a few edits to make it better.

Do you have to do it right now? No.
Give it a rest. Come back at it fresh another day.
When you do "tackle" it again, think of it as an old friend that needs her make-up redone. A few swishes of the magic make-up wand aka brush and she's good to go.

Meanwhile, I'd like you to answer the following questions:

a. What did or didn't you like about writing in this style?
b. What was easy or difficult for you?
c. Do you think you'd enjoy writing in this style again?

I'll be sending you a new assignment in a PM.

Cheers,

Ruby

[ladychipmunk]

Hi LC,

You've been battered and bruised over a wonderful story.
A rewrite isn't in order, just a few edits to make it better.

Do you have to do it right now? No.
Give it a rest. Come back at it fresh another day.
When you do "tackle" it again, think of it as an old friend that needs her make-up redone. A few swishes of the magic make-up wand aka brush and she's good to go.

Meanwhile, I'd like you to answer the following questions:

a. What did or didn't you like about writing in this style?
b. What was easy or difficult for you?
c. Do you think you'd enjoy writing in this style again?

I'll be sending you a new assignment in a PM.

Cheers,

Ruby

I don't know how to make the multi quote work so please bear with me...

What I liked/disliked about writing style... Well I thought that the past active tense was more engaging but more difficult for me to write. I am not a "writer" by training. I write because as humans we have this damnable need to communicate, unfortunatley my typical communicating deals in technical mumbo jumbo <snore>. A good replacement for the old sears robuck catalog in the outhouse!

This one wasn't too bad in terms of difficulty. (Far preferable to the male first person POV I did in the other thread. yech!)

As far a writing in it again. I probably would enjoy it. We'll find out.

I've got this one all filed away in my hard drive. Is there anyway to quickly save the thread to disc so I can review it when I am ready to revise and resubmit? (no pun intended)


Lews,

Many thanks for the encouragement and the insight into word processors. It's good to know that Word is heavenly inspired although there are days I swear that Word was invented by some demonic force.....Usually those thoghts occur as I hit CTRl+Alt+Del!

Never did finish the basement.....

[Mad Lews]

I know I need to do this but I just can't bring myself to do the re-write right now. All very good points made but I feel like I am slogging through mud right now and all I hear is the giant sucking sound my feet are making as I try to lift them

I even started cleaning the basement. (That's how bad it is. BTW I HATE cleaning the basement!)
Working on working on it.......

M'lady

Sometimes the editing can get so overwhelming it seems like someone else (or two or three someones) have taken over your project. Take your time read what they say and digest it for a bit. Don't take it badly because any story can always be told a bit better in the retelling. When you do get back to it just read through with an open mind and tinker where you want to; remember it is your creation. Tinkering is the real reason god created word processing programs.

Yours,

Mad Lews