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Thursday, March 23, 2006

Sigh Day

I'm in a funk today. At the gym, I tried to work on the New Historical, but it didn't go well. Everything seemed really hey-no-chemistry here. Then later at home I started working on The Rake (need a better title!) and the resurrected chapter needed more work than I had hoped, which means I still haven't really gotten to writing much of the new chapter. Sigh. And also, is there something wrong with me that I get nervous and anxious when someone, pretend it's someone who maybe read some chapters I wrote, seems to be saying the work is good.

Seriously, that makes me think 1) this person must be either lying to me out of pity (yeah, she's running off to some other blog I don't know about or else calling her Real Writer friends and snickering) or 2) just not a good judge of writing, (Sorry, Trusted Reader, but as you can see writer's neurosis is in full effect Run for your lives!) or 3) well, even if she's right and the chapters don't totally suck, now I'm in danger of thinking I'm good at this and then will become so in love with my writing that I wouldn't recognize crappy writing if it bit me on the butt. I mean, so much of what I write actually is crap at first, that there's no reason to think that new chapters are any good.

Sigh. It's a hideous endless round of just, ick.

Sigh.

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