And in the end, the readers really can't tell the difference.
Neither can the writers, necessarily. I have fluent days where I can write a couple of thousand words; I have grim days where I can't write a couple of hundred, where every word is hacked out with torn and bloody hands. Six months later I'm doing edits, and I have no idea which chapters came easy, which I sweated over. Voice happens separately from pace, apparently...
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Date: 2008-04-11 09:03 am (UTC)Neither can the writers, necessarily. I have fluent days where I can write a couple of thousand words; I have grim days where I can't write a couple of hundred, where every word is hacked out with torn and bloody hands. Six months later I'm doing edits, and I have no idea which chapters came easy, which I sweated over. Voice happens separately from pace, apparently...