Let me out of this office!

[sabrinamari]

Thank gods I never throw any of my preliminary analyses away. The person who edited this manuscript is the most literal-minded demon I have ever encountered. She is asking for all kinds of excess painstaking detail as she carefully edits away every moment of creativity and flow from this manuscript.

*headdesk*

By the time this thing got to her, it had two sad surviving metaphors left. The first made its home in the title, making it a little more exciting than, say, an old dead rat. The editor's first act was to slash that poor thing, rendering the title as blank and bland as humanly possible.

She left the other one alone, but only because it was part of an informant's direct quote. I guess it's OK for study participants to offer up a few flickers of creativity, as long as this deadly threat to the temple of logic is safely contained and kept at a distance from the bulk of the text itself.

Gods. I just want to tie her to a chair and force her to listen to the entire audiobook version of "One Hundred Years of Solitude".

Comments

[angiedub.livejournal.com]

Don't do TOO much *headdesk*. You might dent the desk. ;) Hope you had a more creative enjoyable evening.

[showingup.livejournal.com]

Oh dear. This sounds tough. *Hug*

What does she say her motivation is for this? Is she terrified that it won't be Taken Seriously if it's not dry and unpalatable, and that her reputation will be destroyed, never to be rebuilt?

Fear is the usual big block to creativity (don't I know it!). Perhaps there's a way to ratchet it down?

Still, keep a hold of the Director's Cut in all its glory. You never know when you might want to deploy it.

[arielmn.livejournal.com]

UGH. My heart is with you. I may have to revisit One Hundred Years, because I tried to read it once and could not--perhaps because I where I was then. Maybe as a book on tape is the answer. Thanks for the idea!