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Jan. 14th, 2003 01:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tanaiseOkay, I learned how to finish stories. but the downside is I now move through them a lot faster. and end up with a lot more crap than I used to, because I don't get those re-readings.
I end up leaving lazy phrasing in my stories. I leave scattered 'really's and 'and such' and other useless phrases in my stories now, whereas I used to, in the numerous re-readings.
So my stories work better on a global level, but my sentence level has gone to hell. They need re-reading and rephrasings, and I'm not used to doing that in a revision. Usually by the time I'm revising a story I've polished every sentence to the point of no return.
So this new speed means I have to remember to look for them when I revise. which i'm not used to doing, because my stories used to be so clean as far as that went. It's frustrating, because suddenly it feels like I've lost that. And I know I haven't, it's just the difference between a first draft that takes 9 months and one that takes 2 days. But I hate! looking a review and seeing all these things I should have noticed but didn't. When I was reformatting Firing to send to Strange Horizons, I found revision artifacts all over the place--sentences that didn't actually end, random words that didn't belong--everything. All my drafts are like that now.
I end up leaving lazy phrasing in my stories. I leave scattered 'really's and 'and such' and other useless phrases in my stories now, whereas I used to, in the numerous re-readings.
So my stories work better on a global level, but my sentence level has gone to hell. They need re-reading and rephrasings, and I'm not used to doing that in a revision. Usually by the time I'm revising a story I've polished every sentence to the point of no return.
So this new speed means I have to remember to look for them when I revise. which i'm not used to doing, because my stories used to be so clean as far as that went. It's frustrating, because suddenly it feels like I've lost that. And I know I haven't, it's just the difference between a first draft that takes 9 months and one that takes 2 days. But I hate! looking a review and seeing all these things I should have noticed but didn't. When I was reformatting Firing to send to Strange Horizons, I found revision artifacts all over the place--sentences that didn't actually end, random words that didn't belong--everything. All my drafts are like that now.
Exactly!
Date: 2003-01-14 02:00 pm (UTC)Trent