"I will pry his bony fingers free."
Nov. 14th, 2011 05:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I can imagine nothing more wicked than the oft repeated insistence (from readers, publishers, editors, etc.) that an author must always love her or his work, if the work is to have value, during its creation or afterwards.
no subject
Date: 2011-11-14 11:07 pm (UTC)I'm nothing like a real author, but I do a fair bit of professional and academic writing, and I can't think of anything that I've ever gone back to and not found something that I would've changed.
no subject
Date: 2011-11-15 12:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-11-15 01:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-11-15 01:46 am (UTC)(To anyone who has kids: tell me there aren't moments, or days, or even weeks, when you think your spawn are inexplicably horrible and the worst idea you ever had. Writers have times like that with the brain-spawn. And almost the only thing that will get a writer through those periods of profound loathing is that initial conviction that got her/him into trouble in the first place: "If I can make this work, it'll be so cool.")
no subject
Date: 2011-11-15 05:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-11-16 07:54 am (UTC)