"That is perhaps one of the hardest parts of being a writer: allowing that time might be the answer to the problem." So true. Also one of the hardest parts of being human (for me at least).
I don't know if this is the right spot to post this comment but I wondered if you have any advice for ocd people like me who relentlessly rewrite the same story because it isn't perfect
and/or edit everything looking for such perfection in the language or flow or whatever that theres no life left in the story --stilted oblique strange and emotionless instead
It's sort of becomes an object that some thing alive
"That is perhaps one of the hardest parts of being a writer: allowing that time might be the answer to the problem." So true. Also one of the hardest parts of being human (for me at least).
I don't know if this is the right spot to post this comment but I wondered if you have any advice for ocd people like me who relentlessly rewrite the same story because it isn't perfect
and/or edit everything looking for such perfection in the language or flow or whatever that theres no life left in the story --stilted oblique strange and emotionless instead
It's sort of becomes an object that some thing alive
Maria I hope to give you some sort of response to this! Take heart if I cannot. But I shall muse.