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Steps to Nirvana:
(Also: dammit, this looks sweet. As soon as I get everything set up just how I like it in Pages, I have to learn about this. I hate to change horses mid-stream, but o, how I've been lusting for a full-screen word processor...)
- Write a pivotal scene, worrying the whole time that it's not as good as it was in the previous draft, which you wrote a couple of years ago (and which you're not letting yourself re-read before you re-write).
- Finish the scene, and then read its predecessor, ostensibly to remind yourself how you phrased that one bit you particularly liked.
- Discover that the new version is tighter, swifter, deeper, and entirely better than the old version, including that one bit you particularly liked.
(Also: dammit, this looks sweet. As soon as I get everything set up just how I like it in Pages, I have to learn about this. I hate to change horses mid-stream, but o, how I've been lusting for a full-screen word processor...)
