writerly ways

Where in I waste precious cleaning time (and realizing i can't find my cell phone charger). I guess the topic for this week is something else i SHOULD be doing. Editing.

Wow, there's something I don't know a single writer to like but yet we all have to do it. SOmetimes it's not that hard. You see a scene and say to yourself: talking heads, needs description or OMG that rots, what was I thinking, let me get the axe out.

Other times it's very much harder to do. You see the scene on the page but you can't see the problems. This is where having first readers and writers groups do come in handy. This is why I'm always thrilled to get something, anything, back from the original fiction filter (and why I feel like an ass when I fall behind on my end when it comes to reading others).

Granted you can get some people in a writers' group who literally get off on tearing you down. It's harder than you think to ignore them. Those comments get under the skin and fester even though you know there isn't much merit to it.

how you deal with the usable comments is the issue. It's like going in and stripping your baby naked. Sometimes from the group I get a fifty fifty split on what that scene. That'll make you tug out your hair. Usually if several people in the group says something doesn't work, I have to take them at their word and really go and look at that scene.

But it's hard. I find it very difficult to sit and edit. My brain wants to get to the next scene. I don't want to go back and rehash something. Worse, I don't want to fall into the edit and reedit rut (the one nano is supposed to break you out of).

So how do you guys deal with this task? Loathe it? Love it? Got tricks? I'm curious.

I managed to get in 2200 words this week

total yearly goal -

35542 / 175000 words. 20% done! (pathetic)

Riding with Strangers

33655 / 60000 words. 56% done!

Splinters of Silver and Cold Iron -

75529 / 80000 words. 94% done!

Beneath the Torn Sky -

56445 / 80000 words. 71% done!

New Erotic - picked their names and have a plot

Machivaelli moon (no editing speak of the devil)

my apartment has ate my stuff (but left me my fannish wishes)

that's my story and I'm sticking to it. But seriously I've cleaned up radically and still can't find my cell phone charger or any of the endless tubes of deodorant I just bought. (did find three areas of squirrelled away cash, god I think it might be a sickness at this point)

Need to limit myself on the springkink prompts this time. And figures this time there is a ton of FMA het. Don't get me wrong, I don't mind FMA yaoi but outside of Roy/Maes pretty much none of the other ships do much for me as a writer. I'm ridiculously thrilled there are several OT4 prompts and Trisha/Hoho.

Need to work on fmagiftexchange not to mention ch 2 of help_haiti

If I could do AMV/MMV's I would do the following:

Alice Cooper's School's Out - S3 Buffy

Daughtery's Life After you for Roy & Riza

A Fine Frenzy's Almost Lover for CoS Winry (and I had no idea Twilight ruined this song until I was looking for the lyrics tonight)

David Cook's Light On for Ed & Winry

Jimmy Buffet's The I-95 song just to see Ed and Roy snark at each other

Nicklebacks - If Today was Your Last Day - Roy & Maes since this sounds like something Maes would tell emo!ROy

yeah I've been thinking about this too much

I should probably make a sound track but that would involve, you know actually having the songs in my files to send...