by Barb DeLong and Jann Audiss
But (isn’t there always a big but somewhere?), those three or four pages are like pulling teeth. I can’t turn off my inner editor and just throw words on a page. Even so, my once grand idea begins to sound like crap. Here’s another quote by another award-winning author Ann Patchett that sums up my feelings exactly. She said, “The way I write, I have a novel in my head for a long time that I think about, and in those months it is so beautiful, so incredibly profound . . . The novel in my imagination travels with me like a small lavender moth making loopy circles around my head.†She said, “As soon as I start to put it on the page I kill it. It always breaks my heart. For me, the greatest challenge is to stick with the book I’m writing when what I want to do is hit the delete button.â€
I will strive to have her determination.
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Thanks, louisa! OCC is the best!
Way to think positively to kick off the year. You both can do it!
Internal editor can be so tough. Just remember, though, at some point in time, every writer can't stand their book. At least that's what I always hear …
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