when Mandy shouted

[aamcnamara]

I am getting sick of As Large As Alone! (Edited to add: Also I am pretty sure it needs a different title.) I think this means that when I have resolved all my current issues with it, I should send it out to some people to see if in fact I have mucked it up beyond all repair.

Unfortunately, as soon as I resolve one problem, I realize something else that is wrong in it. Another sentence, another phrase, some other wrong note or chord. And then I glance through it and think that in fact the entire thing is flimsy, unsupported, and has no resonance to it at all.

I suspect this is what they mean when they say that works of art are never completed, only abandoned.

(Hey. I am making a work of art. That's pretty sweet.)

Comments

[ktsparrow.livejournal.com]

It's almost never as bad as you think it is, doesn't mean this phase doesn't suck, though. Good luck.

[aamcnamara.livejournal.com]

To a certain extent I have enough self-awareness to know that this is just The Stage In Which The Story Is Terrible. On the other hand, I still feel like all of my fears may well be right.

Anyway, thanks.