Sanity Check

Posted on February 15, 2003 in Writing Groups

I love the chore of editing. There are some things which are hard work, like drawing specimens you view under a microscope or getting the shadows on a photograph right. These give me joy. When I mentioned how a piece one of my fellow writers presented on Monday had reached the wonderful stage where she could proceed sentence by sentence and test every word, she and most of the table gave me the oddest look.

With Garnette’s new work hours which preclude her attendance every other Monday, I wonder if the artists (except for maybe Nannette) have left the group. So many seem to be out to write that best selling mystery or thriller which will free them from the nine to five. Or they strive for deathly, technical perfection, free of their personalities.

I’ve broken an unwritten rule of such groups, by the way. I’ve distributed a version and continued to work on it. There I go, getting in myself in trouble because I walk faster than others and cannot always be contented to pause at corners while they catch up.

Am I crazy?

I’m afraid that the majority think I am.