Samurai Training!
Apr. 18th, 2012 09:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lydamorehouseYesterday, we had all the greatest intentions of getting to KSW, but I was derailed by my son and my partner who offered snuggling and reading. Hard to resist....nay, impossible.
Thus tonight will be my first excercise for the week--back to bokken. I will let you know how the further adventures of samurai/Jedi training goes.
Meanwhile, I started working through the copyedited manuscript for Tate's PRECINCT 13. I don't know if other writers experience this, but, sometimes when I'm reading my own work, I wonder, "Did I really write this?" I mean, we all have those moments when we impress the heck out of ourselves (I had to read a scene to Shawn last night because I was still so proud of it,) but this is different. I look at the words and I think, "That's not my usual style." I actually do wonder if I don't notice the light massaging that editors do to sentences, etc., until it's in its fancy font in a .pdf. So, it is possible that I *didn't* write that sentence, not exactly the way it appears now, anyway. Which is why this experience is so jarring. Usually, it's a phrase I remember composing, only the words aren't the way I remember them. But, given how much editing I do myself, I usually stare at it for a beat or two, try to decide if there's anything WRONG with the way it's composed, and then shrug it off, chalking it up to my bad memory, the mystery/magic of writing and revising, and/or editor interference.
I have a werid job. It messes with my head.
Thus tonight will be my first excercise for the week--back to bokken. I will let you know how the further adventures of samurai/Jedi training goes.
Meanwhile, I started working through the copyedited manuscript for Tate's PRECINCT 13. I don't know if other writers experience this, but, sometimes when I'm reading my own work, I wonder, "Did I really write this?" I mean, we all have those moments when we impress the heck out of ourselves (I had to read a scene to Shawn last night because I was still so proud of it,) but this is different. I look at the words and I think, "That's not my usual style." I actually do wonder if I don't notice the light massaging that editors do to sentences, etc., until it's in its fancy font in a .pdf. So, it is possible that I *didn't* write that sentence, not exactly the way it appears now, anyway. Which is why this experience is so jarring. Usually, it's a phrase I remember composing, only the words aren't the way I remember them. But, given how much editing I do myself, I usually stare at it for a beat or two, try to decide if there's anything WRONG with the way it's composed, and then shrug it off, chalking it up to my bad memory, the mystery/magic of writing and revising, and/or editor interference.
I have a werid job. It messes with my head.
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Date: 2012-04-20 10:35 am (UTC)Another thing I remember: When you start questioning whether t-h-e is spelled right (or is even a real word), it's time to take a break....