Great rewriting

I've said it myself--great writers are, really, great rewriters. A great rewriter can take a mediocre or tired old story and breathe new life into it.

Of course, it helps to have someone you can trust to read over your stuff and give you feedback. Finding someone to really, honestly do that is rare. People worry that they may hurt your feelings if they don't like your stuff, or if they think it could be better, so they just tell you it's great. Finding someone to give constructive, useful feedback is rare. I'm fortunate in that I have somebody who knows what she's doing to look over my draft of Seer and give me some feedback that I can use and that'll improve the story. If you aren't a writer you hav eno idea how exciting that is, because it doesn't happen very often.

Anyways, real-life this week has been brutal and I've been just too worn out when I got home from work to do much more than walk Atari and stare at the TV. It was my week to work late and it's been really busy and I just didn't have anything left in the tank when I got home. Fortunately, that's over for now, so I'll be back on my usual schedule for the next little while.

Plus, I deliberately left my personal schedule free this weekend, after working a little while this morning, to work on it. I've already gotten quite a bit done. Got some more to do, though--adding scenes, reworking some dialog, that sort of thing. It's stufff that needs to be done, though, stuff that'll make it better, and I'm actually enjoying it.

If you're a writer and you find someone like that--someone you can trust, who knows what he or she is doing, and will give you honest, constructive feedback--treasure that person.

I know--better than just about anybody--there just ain't all that many people like that out there.