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And pen number two has fallen in the line, to be replaced by a far inferior PaperMate Silk successor that has yet to win my trust. I like my gels, and pens should not by name or anything else recall lingerie. That’s just weird.
I’m starting to enjoy this, in that loose tooth, it’s-bleeding-but-I-love-the-pain sort of incredibly sick way. You know, spitting blood in the middle of first grade history class; that icky crackle when you move the tooth around with your tongue, the way the pain makes you want to bite down hard and just get it all over with, only that doesn’t improve anything…yep.
You know what I’m talking about. Don’t look at me like that, we all did it.
I’m beginning to think I might be a masochist.
Oh, wait. I was already a writer.
I can hear my MS pleading with me to stop, wait, we can talk about this…..no, no, not the kissing scene!
Yes. Yes, the kissing scene. Not enough connection to the plot, introduces a random side character not significant to anything then or afterward, too heavy on the adverbs, and my MC ends up macking on a far more thematically important secondary character later on anyway, so it’s not like we’re missing steam here. Begone, arbitrary tongue-with-groping moment: my MC will only be the better for having been deprived for 8 chapters before he gets a little somethin’ anyway.
*sigh*
13 chapters in. This may take me the rest of the week. And, may I say, OW.
‘Scuse me while I go find a doorknob to tie my incisors to, would you?
Rachel Burton said:
Ick. The tooth metaphor brought back such wretched memories (and not as far back as you’d think – I had a dentist crack my wisdom teeth and yank ’em out of my head while I was awake a few years back) but it was totally appropriate!
Amy Bai said:
Oooch. I still have all my wisdoms (for all the good they’ve done me) so the memory is safely distant by some 20+ years. 🙂
Jen said:
Perfect job of capturing the pain of revision!
Amy Bai said:
Why, thank you. 🙂 And thanks for stopping by!
ChristaCarol said:
Jeez woman. Why remind me of the gruesome sensations of becoming toothless? *shudders* Great writing though, really brought back the ew factor lol. And I couldn’t help but laugh at your dialogue with your MS. Poor MS has no idea what’s comin’ to him. Keep it up! I don’t miss revising mine, but I’d rather be revising it again than going through query and synopsis hell. Seriously. *sigh*
Amy Bai said:
Oh yeah. This is bad, pulling teeth bad, but I’ll still take it over a synopsis ANY DAY. My sympathies.
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