Cut Up Your Manuscript With Scissors

Well, it’s that time again.


I write yet another draft of a book and then I grab my scissors with a semi-crazy look in my tired eyes and start cutting it up. I gleefully use a stapler, too, for good measure.


I usually have cookies on hand to adhere to ‘Cathy’s Healthy Eating Diet’ and I mutter things like, “You are a terrible writer…this is a terrible book…I can’t believe you wrote that, Cathy. Why on Earth did you think that was a plausible idea?…that character is ridiculous, delete him, don’t argue with me he IS ridiculous…you should have been a carpenter and why do you have to eat THAT many cookies?”


So pleasant, that voice inside my head.


The glorious life of a writer continues.



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Published on August 09, 2020 23:50
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Sharon Benedict Ah yes, but such wonderful reading follows, eventually!


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