/lit/ - Literature

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>>5970948
That's cool, thanks for taking the time, Anon. My greatest hero of the English language was not a native speaker; it allows for interesting insights which natives take for granted. That said, why do you feel the first is good and the second is bad?

For what it's worth, I rather agree with you all, however I still think the first just needs--something. Something isn't there and I hate that it isn't.

I can't tell you people how many times I've rewritten, revised, recreated this fucking story. It's insane. Throughout all the drafts, many of them total rewrites, I've written or typed easily 700,000 words, if not 1,000,000. I've filled up notebooks, I wrote the entire last draft by hand. I really feel it, I trust it, and I know in my heart now that this draft is where it needs to be. But I'm so particular--I can't put it down. I can't wait for the day I can share it with the world but at the same time I can't seem to put it down, stop honing it.

I've heard the saying "art is never finished; only abandoned", but I just don't like that first sentence, even though I know it's better. It's driving me crazy.