Friday, April 15, 2011

Week Eighteen: The Pain of Editing

If you were to look at my fingernails right now you would see little jagged nubs.  Why?  I’m trying to compromise with myself.  I’m editing my volunteer article (still without title).  I like it the way it was, but recognize it can be much better.  Tam made some interesting edits/comments that made me see the flaws and strengths in the article.  This is now the process that causes my incessant nail biting.

Mr. Paragraph looks a little distraught and awkward.  I notice a sentence—Mr. Paragraph’s arm—is deformed.  I argue with myself about how to do surgery.  I pull out my surgical tools and rewire it.  Then it looks worse, so I pull it off and discard it.  Then I attach a new one.  This one looks funky as well, so I toy with it some more.  It looks even worse than before.  So I put the original back on and realize that was the wrong arm.  

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