Then I started the new WIP.
The perfect ending hasn't come to me yet, so I decided while I wait to revise. I've been writing, revising, writing a little more, revising some more, etc lately.
And there has been no cringing.
Yes, there are more -ly words than I will ever admit to, sentence fragments, missing commas, and all sorts of wording errors and omissions. Yet I still don't cringe.
I realized -- I've fallen in love. I am so head-over-heels for this story I don't think anything about it could make me cringe. I love revising it! I love fixing all the adverb-filled sentences and making them stronger because I AM IN LOVE.
Forgive me for being slow on the uptake, but I didn't know this was possible! The first book I ever sat down and wrote was in high school -- never even went back and read it. The second book I wrote -- well, tried to write -- is stuffed in a drawer, too painful to gaze upon. Then came Emerald. The first book I ever loved enough to go through the painful revisions. I never loved the revision process though.
Now to have this WIP, and to have so much love for it that I'm looking forward to revisions? I'm a little bit in shock. I don't quite know how to handle it. Well, except to plant butt in chair and go for it.
What about you guys? Ever experienced the love so deep you can't wait to revise it over and over and over again?
3 comments:
Wow, that's such a great feeling, isn't it? :) That's how I am for my manuscript, Wants. Though I don't always love the revision process, I always love that manuscript a little bit more once I'm done with another round of edits. It's like it keeps getting shinier. :)
Fantastic--
I haven't totally been there yet... with my current WIP I have loved revising at times, and at other times felt totally frustrated by it.
So a little of both!
Well, the same happened to my first two tries, so I can only hope this one is the one for me.
Congrats :)
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