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When you edit something, any creative writing work, there's Hard Edit and Smooth Edit. Hard Edit does the rip-the-guts-up work, where you get under the project and just fuck around down there like you're a bored Latino mechanic toying with an El Camino on cinderblocks that will never run run again anyway, with that kind of skilled wanton desire to rip the shit out of the frame and shove something that will turn over in there. Smooth edit is when you come in the day after than and Emily Post it so that all it's little rough edges are soothed down and the writing is toped with pink bows, which people notice because they're bows, usually not getting that the real work that makes everything function is something below that, which is fine because good writing is so impregnable that it's hard to figure out exactly why it's working.
I edited a nonfic piece Mexican Mechanic style tonight, after a workshop in which I droped the ball, and it felt good. It went from two pages to six, but that's okay. I cut things and gave it the thematic equivalent of whitewall tires and a door that does not open out, but slides up on rails.
Molly, Therese and I got the first half of Vaguely in the scripted form we're handing out to workshoppers.This is vital, because in order for Therese to start paneling the script has to be adamantium solid. I almost want to finish writing the comic before sending out the first issue, to avoid continuity issues of any kind, but it's not practicable, and besides, should the comic even be moderatly sucessful that kind of thing can be knit together in re-issue without the world ending.
Sam suggested 'Circus' for tonight's sonnet topic (Project One Sonnet A Day goes excellently, 10 new ones so far (I missed three days with new classes and am catching up on that still by two a day-ing, which is kind of demanding). Thanks to Sam, because I'm really happy with it. It's about the death of a trapeze artist named Elise because her partner purposefully didn't catch her. I'm thinking of doing several that have a narative thread which focus on a circus. That's a little Meghan Donner, but I think we have different enough voices and theme-interests for me to avoid treading her ground.
First Spanish class was easy, and I felt like a shit. Am meeting with the department head tomorrow morning to transfer into intermediate one if possible. Then I'll finish intermediate one and two during the summer, take conversation classes during the year, and pick up my Spanish minor like a charm. STFU mom, once I have two minors you can't bitch about me droping history. If I end up doing that. Yeah...
Productivity. Maaaaaaaaaah.
When you edit something, any creative writing work, there's Hard Edit and Smooth Edit. Hard Edit does the rip-the-guts-up work, where you get under the project and just fuck around down there like you're a bored Latino mechanic toying with an El Camino on cinderblocks that will never run run again anyway, with that kind of skilled wanton desire to rip the shit out of the frame and shove something that will turn over in there. Smooth edit is when you come in the day after than and Emily Post it so that all it's little rough edges are soothed down and the writing is toped with pink bows, which people notice because they're bows, usually not getting that the real work that makes everything function is something below that, which is fine because good writing is so impregnable that it's hard to figure out exactly why it's working.
I edited a nonfic piece Mexican Mechanic style tonight, after a workshop in which I droped the ball, and it felt good. It went from two pages to six, but that's okay. I cut things and gave it the thematic equivalent of whitewall tires and a door that does not open out, but slides up on rails.
Molly, Therese and I got the first half of Vaguely in the scripted form we're handing out to workshoppers.This is vital, because in order for Therese to start paneling the script has to be adamantium solid. I almost want to finish writing the comic before sending out the first issue, to avoid continuity issues of any kind, but it's not practicable, and besides, should the comic even be moderatly sucessful that kind of thing can be knit together in re-issue without the world ending.
Sam suggested 'Circus' for tonight's sonnet topic (Project One Sonnet A Day goes excellently, 10 new ones so far (I missed three days with new classes and am catching up on that still by two a day-ing, which is kind of demanding). Thanks to Sam, because I'm really happy with it. It's about the death of a trapeze artist named Elise because her partner purposefully didn't catch her. I'm thinking of doing several that have a narative thread which focus on a circus. That's a little Meghan Donner, but I think we have different enough voices and theme-interests for me to avoid treading her ground.
First Spanish class was easy, and I felt like a shit. Am meeting with the department head tomorrow morning to transfer into intermediate one if possible. Then I'll finish intermediate one and two during the summer, take conversation classes during the year, and pick up my Spanish minor like a charm. STFU mom, once I have two minors you can't bitch about me droping history. If I end up doing that. Yeah...
Productivity. Maaaaaaaaaah.
