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I think I heard a sigh of relief at midnight from about half of the people I know.

I'm relegating the NaNo novel to the back burner for the moment because I'm just not feeling it and I've got the revisions and editing to do on the Tower!Guy novel in light of the comments and critiques I've gotten back so far.

Having a printed out copy of the novel really helps when it comes to line editing. The only good thing about line editing is that I can stop and start it when I need to because it's not a strictly creative process. Writing, however, if I stop in the middle of a good run, sometimes I just can't get back in the groove for the life of me.

Also? Wow, I am really terrible at grammar when I'm not paying attention. Especially homophones. I think it's because I'm very sound oriented when it comes to reading and writing. Which is why a lot of visuals in novels and stories are so boring to me. I don't visualize what I read very much, thus making flower descriptions tedious in the extreme.

Come to think of it, I think this explains why I could never get through more than ten pages of Tolkien at a time without falling asleep. I wonder if Tolkien could get published in today's market.

Of course, that's a hard question to answer, because a big chunk of the market he'd be submitting to is based on his work in the first place.

More randomly, I wish that LJ made editing your tags as easy as LibraryThing does. It would really help. But this is LiveJournal, and that's just a bit too much to hope for.

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