THIS. This is so accurate. xD

This is painfully accurate AND SO CORRECT ARHGHHH. Particularly that "blank stare finish". *sobs* I always have like this ONE SCENE that I thought was genius in every draft and I just tell myself everything will be better once I get up to editing that...and then I get there and that scene is sooo baaaaad. xDXD hehe. BUT STILL. It's rewarding to finish, right?!? Cake is also rewarding. Much cake. Omg.

AAAAAH THIS IS THE MOST ACCURATE. I actually enjoy planning edits, though, far more than editing itself. And LIES. People can clearly live on tea and chocolate. Cake as well, as a treat. There is an odd calmness to finishing. It's like yay. I finished. now what. my life has no more meaning. (Until the next draft, as you rightly point out. And yet -- there is something compelling about the process. I couldn't live without writing/editing, I think.)

Haha. XD The thing that gets me the most about editing is how much bloody time it takes. I line edited one of my books recently and it took me three hours to do twelve pages. XD

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Ahhhh yeah this is painfully true. It's funny when I read posts like this I'm like why do we writers put ourselves through all of this hard stuff and then I walk away and get a shiney new idea and I remember why we write. :D

*faints* This is why I have a totally different editing process than most people, because my brain would just fry at this. I tried taking a list of notes and dealing with them all and everything, but I just froze up because there were too many things to focus on. (By the way, I applaud you for being able to survive this process and make it work.) I just read my draft, make a few mental notes and writhe inwardly at how horrible it is, and then I rewrite the whole stinking thing line by line, word for word, figuring out what I need to do and when I need to do it as I go along. Other people might find this more overwhelming, and I totally understand why, but I find that it's the only process that works for me.

Thanks for sharing!

This post is too funny! It basically describes my feelings to a tee. I HATE editing, but at the same time I love it because it makes my not-so-great first draft actually readable. When I get to the end though, I always celebrate!

Great post!

The only difference between me and you is that I actually let like three people I respect read this thing thinking I know what I'm doing before I realize that NO I SHOULDN'T HAVE DONE THAT AND THE PROCESS OVERTAKES ME. LIKE THIS IS SO TRUE. *bawls and weeps* There is like, no way to have self-esteem about your writing while you're editing. So overwhelming. So hard. So much chocolate. So. much. chocolate.

I giggled through this entire post. This is SO REAL, oh my goodness. (Especially reading the first draft - I generally arm myself with tissues and chocolate on the first readthrough, because there are inevitably at least two places where I burst into tears and swear off writing forever.)

Let us just keep reminding ourselves: we are here because we love this. Writing is our calling. There is nothing we'd rather do. And all those other things we have to tell ourselves to stay sane in all of this insanity. ;)