The I-am-so-happy-I-haven’t-yet-queried reinforcement keeps showing her beautiful face. And gosh, if she isn’t the most gorgeous thing in the world.
Those handwritten edits are now in place. The final result of the adverbs/modifiers/show-tell removal: more than three hundred words deleted. Three hundred unnecessary words. This is a hallelujah moment in action.
In an effort to give myself a little bit of breathing room with the prose, I’m holding off on implementing any big changes until next critique. While I’ve scribbled some possible new additions into a Google Doc and identified weak points, I am letting myself chill until I’m on the chopping block part two, at which point my head is likely to explode again. Good explosions, though. Or at least theoretically productive ones. Now, I have to figure out which pages to present (with the new found knowledge that I have no perspective on my own work).
Wheels are always turning. Maybe one day they will let me sleep. Eight ball says, “ask again later.”
M
