I'm selfishly glad it's Not Just Me, though I'm sorry you had to kick the habit too. :) I'd never heard anyone mention this particular revision kink before. The last few pp might actually be okay, or even the last chapter, since it's more smoothing than heavy revision. I'm in the habit of starting with page one, paragraph one, which is slow enough at 25 pages that I can see 225 will be Right Out.
If workshops don't really get past the sentence level then I didn't miss as much as I feared. I'm okay at the sentence level -- which is not to say I have nothing to learn, or anything, but especially with the help of a beta, I'm at a place I'm comfy with, for the moment at least.
It's that bit with the table that you're talking about that I don't seem to know how to do, or even how to go about learning. Are there workshops just for that? At least, sometimes I think I get it right, but when I get it wrong I often can't figure out how to fix it even when I know where it's broken.
(Beyond practice, of course. I've grasped that that seems to be the answer to most writing questions, but I don't want to practice the wrong thing if I can help it, and then have to train myself out of it again.)
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Date: 2005-02-07 08:11 pm (UTC)If workshops don't really get past the sentence level then I didn't miss as much as I feared. I'm okay at the sentence level -- which is not to say I have nothing to learn, or anything, but especially with the help of a beta, I'm at a place I'm comfy with, for the moment at least.
It's that bit with the table that you're talking about that I don't seem to know how to do, or even how to go about learning. Are there workshops just for that? At least, sometimes I think I get it right, but when I get it wrong I often can't figure out how to fix it even when I know where it's broken.
(Beyond practice, of course. I've grasped that that seems to be the answer to most writing questions, but I don't want to practice the wrong thing if I can help it, and then have to train myself out of it again.)