You know what I hate doing? I really hate chugging along at some project that I've been whittling away at for some time, only to find that I have left a big old pile of crap for me to 'fix later'.
The past few days have been 'fix later' days.
It's like pouring legos around the bed and then drinking down a huge glass of warm water right at bed time...
"I'll tear my feet up later. When I'm not ready for it. So I can't sleep for the rest of the night. Yah. That sounds like a GREAT plan."
...and then make sure the blackout curtains are all in place.
Well, I've muddled through the chapter called Funny Pages. It was NOT fun. I had a big artistic plan to utilize my brother and members of his visually artistic family in creating comic book pages right in the middle of the novel. There's this character who visually represents non-related elements of the novel through his prophetic images.
I figured it would make a nifty book gimmic too.
The images never panned out, so I was forced to write the images in a truncated, concise way that would fit into the flow of the chapter.
Ugh.
It was like doing a rough draft, for the second (third?) time.
Never again. Clean the work better to make the editing less dreadful. I have learned my lesson!
-I.K.
