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[thatrcooper]

Realization as to why I hate editing so much: (Aside from the obvious reason that you're making yourself seek out your mistakes and failures).

There are really only...four or five chapters in Ideas of Sin that I really like, maybe even love, and the rest were written just to get to those. It's like I can see my own impatience and annoyance and it makes me impatient and annoyed. And I wrote the damn thing. I can only imagine pissed off readers, sitting there like anime fans, waiting for me to finally get to it.


You can guess the chapters though, it should be pretty easy. :)

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[sinjah.livejournal.com]

You know, IoS never felt like that to me. On the contrary, it felt... drawn out (in the good way), like you had taken your time.

That said, might I offer some concrit? The latest chapters felt a bit weird to me. They were sort of stream-of-consciousness, which I will admit I love most of the time, but at times I felt like you were focusing too much on the tree and losing the forest. Like, you focused on the moment you were describing, that the plot was a bit left out. (Perhaps that's a result of what you described above?)

Despite this, some of my absolutely favorite chapters are included in the ones I am referring to.

PS: Every time I go back and read stuff I've written, I hate everything. So. Much. Hate.

[r-cooper.livejournal.com]

No no, concrit all the way. That's what this journal will be for, once it really gets...you know...finished and everything. Kittie has to make it look pretty for me and all that.

The last chapters are completely a problem. They need to be all crazy, at least for Rene, but then I made them that way for James too, and he didn't need it. And I sort of shoved a lot of stuff in there. (I wonder if by then I couldn't remember what I had or hadn't included, because yeah, I hate rereading my old stuff too.)