I really don't think I could write something and torture it into being something I don't like. I don't mind the controlled butchery of editing, but I see it as something more akin to a positive process like topiary!
There's a point where butchery becomes mindless bloodletting, and that's the point where you have to let go. Where you read your hacked-up prose and think, God, what happened? I liked it much better before.
Unfortunately, I think I'd have to reach that stage if I was going to get published commercially, so in the long-term I'll maybe give it a miss.
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Date: 2010-01-09 05:12 pm (UTC)I really don't think I could write something and torture it into being something I don't like. I don't mind the controlled butchery of editing, but I see it as something more akin to a positive process like topiary!
There's a point where butchery becomes mindless bloodletting, and that's the point where you have to let go. Where you read your hacked-up prose and think, God, what happened? I liked it much better before.
Unfortunately, I think I'd have to reach that stage if I was going to get published commercially, so in the long-term I'll maybe give it a miss.