Quote by Lisa
I really like that quote. Sometimes it's difficult to keep writing when the work I've just done is far from perfect, but it has to be done if I want to actually finish a story.
That is interesting...I think one of the reasons why I don't feel the need to edit, is that my process is different from a lot of people...I would never continue writing a story I wasn't happy with, my "process" consists of writing two or three paragraphs, getting a cup of coffee and a cigarette, thinking about what I'm going to write next, and then continuing with the next two or three paragraphs until the story is done...but, I would never move on to the next paragraphs until I was happy with what I had just written...
I figured out one time that it takes me approximately an hour per page in Word to write a story...it took me about four hours to write my contest story, which was only a bit more than two pages, but I took breaks and did things like read one of Steffanie's stories in the middle...
It is very rare, but I have abandoned stories because I realized the idea was not that good once I started...only happened maybe twice that I can recall...fortunately, I've been able to make use of my "rejects"...lol...
My story "Love Conquers All"...which is actually my most popular story, contains a paragraph that starts with "There is something I learned a long time ago. The opposite of love is not hate. The opposite of love is indifference..." That came from a story that I had started and abandoned called "The Best Part Of Making Up"...it was about a husband who starts fights with his wife just so they could have make-up sex...lol...I realized later after I started writing it that there was no easy way for me to show how he started the fights without possibly writing something someone might find offensive...I did however, write a couple of paragraphs at the beginning explaining how people who care about each other are going to argue and disagree now and then...just because they care about each other...
That story never got written, but the best part of it did get used to good effect...
