revising while cranky

[marycatelli]

Writing while cranky is simple.  Just do it.  Sure, it is without a fraction of a doubt the worst piece of prose ever perpetrated on defenseless phosphors, but just write it anyway.

You won't even be able to tell, when you come back and reread it, what the portions were that were written while cranky.

It's revising that's the pain.  When you have to think and consider and decide whether this is good enough.  And it's worst when you know that you have external reasons to feel cranky, it might not actually be the stupidest thing anyone ever wrote in the entire history of writing fiction. 

sigh

Comments

[scbutler.livejournal.com]

Excellent point. I never thought of it that way. As I am revising right now (crankily), I know exactly what you mean.

[marycatelli]

I'm trying to revise a story in an earlier stage of work. . . .

Perhaps it's just as well I don't have an outline ready to rip. Always dangerous to stop doing stuff just because you're not interested in doing it.