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A lot of writers are able to submit their stuff here and go about their lives without a second backward glance, without nagging doubts that won't unlatch their barbed hooks and sticky stinky claws.
I wish I had that ability, but I don't. Just about everything I submit here, have submitted here, and will submit here, is, has, and always will be, subject to alterations: fixing typos, crappy wordings, erasing focused details here, flowering up there; molding, remolding, chipping, replacing, and so on and so on. On the one hand it's a somewhat tortuous condition, because I would love to be able to present something that I feel is satisfactory from top to bottom, inside and out (sometime before say, the year 2012, when the world's supposedly's supposed to end) - not perfect. Never perfection. But just shy of it. A couple little scratches and smears in the right places: cool. Almost perfect. On the other hand, it's just a whole lot of fun to fuck around here and there, it's like playing with the miracle of created beings. You know? You can make them, then remake them, on and on. And that's just a blast.
If you see yourself in the first paragraph more than the second, then this thread will be of no real interest to you.
If the second paragraph has you nodding and seeing yourself in it, then... well. Maybe you'll get something here. Because there's no section or category that announces revisions/edits. So you could have a story that you submitted in a hasty haze, and they snagged it for posting before you could go back in and address a few issues. It gets panned or poo-pooed. A half a year later, you've got it much better tightened up. But? Who knows? Unless you delete and resubmit.
Anyway.
I'll go first.
Constant Windows: newly tinkered versions of chapts 1 thru 4 now exist. Still a few boo-boos and glitches, but I think they're not worse than they were. Give them another year, they should be closer to what they should be. I'll take another look at chapts 5 & 6, so if anybody looks at those and says, 'christ these things suck' I'll be right there agreeing with you.
Oh, a slightly revised Cream Screening is pending. It was flowery before and I made it even more flowery. Just cuz.
Hm, that should do it for me. For now.
Next?
I wish I had that ability, but I don't. Just about everything I submit here, have submitted here, and will submit here, is, has, and always will be, subject to alterations: fixing typos, crappy wordings, erasing focused details here, flowering up there; molding, remolding, chipping, replacing, and so on and so on. On the one hand it's a somewhat tortuous condition, because I would love to be able to present something that I feel is satisfactory from top to bottom, inside and out (sometime before say, the year 2012, when the world's supposedly's supposed to end) - not perfect. Never perfection. But just shy of it. A couple little scratches and smears in the right places: cool. Almost perfect. On the other hand, it's just a whole lot of fun to fuck around here and there, it's like playing with the miracle of created beings. You know? You can make them, then remake them, on and on. And that's just a blast.
If you see yourself in the first paragraph more than the second, then this thread will be of no real interest to you.
If the second paragraph has you nodding and seeing yourself in it, then... well. Maybe you'll get something here. Because there's no section or category that announces revisions/edits. So you could have a story that you submitted in a hasty haze, and they snagged it for posting before you could go back in and address a few issues. It gets panned or poo-pooed. A half a year later, you've got it much better tightened up. But? Who knows? Unless you delete and resubmit.
Anyway.
I'll go first.
Constant Windows: newly tinkered versions of chapts 1 thru 4 now exist. Still a few boo-boos and glitches, but I think they're not worse than they were. Give them another year, they should be closer to what they should be. I'll take another look at chapts 5 & 6, so if anybody looks at those and says, 'christ these things suck' I'll be right there agreeing with you.
Oh, a slightly revised Cream Screening is pending. It was flowery before and I made it even more flowery. Just cuz.
Hm, that should do it for me. For now.
Next?
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