Okay.

*cracks knuckles*

I have two copies of the CatFeet story open. I think what I'm going to do is save the second one as CatFeet Mark III and just start editing the CRAP out of it. Bob says I need a body by the second or third page, which will be tough, but I think I can rip a whole bunch of stuff out without hurting the story. I'm going to take "a body" to mean "the shoe," because the shoe leads to the body. Also, I need that scene to set up what the guy does for a living, since I'll be excising the entire scene where I introduced that before.

I also had a really cool thought for the scene where the cat sits on the hood of his car and just stares at him, which I've gleefully incorporated. *evil laughter* You know that flail-y thing you do with your hands when you get creeped out? Or is that just me? Anyway, yeah, this particular thing is making me do that. Because, EW.

Editing is harder than writing. This is feeling like actual work. Augh.

Okay.

*cracks knuckles*

I have two copies of the CatFeet story open. I think what I'm going to do is save the second one as CatFeet Mark III and just start editing the CRAP out of it. Bob says I need a body by the second or third page, which will be tough, but I think I can rip a whole bunch of stuff out without hurting the story. I'm going to take "a body" to mean "the shoe," because the shoe leads to the body. Also, I need that scene to set up what the guy does for a living, since I'll be excising the entire scene where I introduced that before.

I also had a really cool thought for the scene where the cat sits on the hood of his car and just stares at him, which I've gleefully incorporated. *evil laughter* You know that flail-y thing you do with your hands when you get creeped out? Or is that just me? Anyway, yeah, this particular thing is making me do that. Because, EW.

Editing is harder than writing. This is feeling like actual work. Augh.

*cries*

Dude, I don't see any way of getting that dead body on page two or three without glossing over that whole first scene entirely--which would only get the body on page four. Page two? Is completely impossible.



Maybe I should print the thing out and take an actual red pen to it. Really, a blow-by-blow description of the fight isn't necessary. Is it?

I've already whacked out something like 750 words. ARGH. Thing is, I'd really like to get it down to under 5000, because that increases its marketability enormously. However, I also want to be true to the story I want to tell.

What a friggin' tightrope.

I'm going for a walk. *stomps off*

*cries*

Dude, I don't see any way of getting that dead body on page two or three without glossing over that whole first scene entirely--which would only get the body on page four. Page two? Is completely impossible.



Maybe I should print the thing out and take an actual red pen to it. Really, a blow-by-blow description of the fight isn't necessary. Is it?

I've already whacked out something like 750 words. ARGH. Thing is, I'd really like to get it down to under 5000, because that increases its marketability enormously. However, I also want to be true to the story I want to tell.

What a friggin' tightrope.

I'm going for a walk. *stomps off*