Sometimes, it fuels a Netflix binge
July Substack Post:
Revisions and rewrites. I’m sick of it. I have a complete manuscript that I keep messing with after several rewrites and I’m stuck on how the first chapter reads. Do I start here or in chapter three? Maybe I’m listening too much to my critique partners, but what if I’m not listening enough to them? Could the current state of political affairs in the US have me discombobulated?
For two weeks, I have gone through the same thing. I light my candle each morning, sip strong coffee, and reread my opening pages. I make a few strikethroughs, make a few editions, delete, and redo. It’s like being on an exercise bike; I’m cycling and getting nowhere, not even expending calories. I’m stuck, which translates into closing out the manuscript file. Again.
That in-between state of ‘start here or there’ leaves me adrift, and I don’t like it. I wonder what other writers call this stage of floundering with their manuscripts—maybe floundering, :). The bottom line is that I do not like not writing and finishing a manuscript. I’m out of sorts.
I’ve consoled myself and been momentarily excited about other positive news in my writing life:
alvaradofrazier.com 