Tuesday, May 29, 2012

give me a cigarette. right now.

I'm exhausted. Shouldn't I be cheering? I just finished writing a book called RAISING CHEER! For fuck's sake. The initial draft blasted out of me. And I got immediate feedback from five trusted readers, including my agent, Melissa. I consolidated the notes, burrowed back in, and rewrote the 250ish pages. Then, printed them out and reread, and reworkshopped and, again, rewrote. All in less than two weeks.

Who knew I would fuck up "towards" and "toward" repeatedly? Write numerals instead of spelling out the numbers? Rename minor characters mid-manuscript. I think rereading a zipped out draft can be among the most humbling of all activities. Ugh.

And now all I want to do is sleep.

Funnily enough, I just read a similar blog entry over in Averilville.

And, copycat that I am, I'm gonna ask the same question of you all. How are you after being rode hard and put away wet? Exhilarated? Exhausted? Horny? Sad?

4 comments:

  1. Horny. My poor husband is exhausted.

    Congratulations to you, though I've probably said it before. The book sounds amazing and you're a fucking badass to have cranked it out so fast. I see some pony-shaped post-it notes in my future. (Who's the copycat now?)

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Oh no, Averil, my dear. Your husband is lucky.

      Delete
  2. You are a badass! All that in 2 weeks. Dear lord, woman, you need to lie down!!

    Well, you need to lie down on a deck chair on the beach and have someone bring you mojitos with little umbrellas in them, but that was a given, right?

    Congrats Suzy! Where's that pack of Marlboro Lights?

    ReplyDelete
  3. I actually did have a celebratory cocktail (once it wasn't 10 am anymore). Alas, no paper umbrella was involved. My eye is twitching. Guess I should take a break from the machine.

    ReplyDelete

Thanks for commenting. If you have trouble posting a comment, let me know! suzyvitello@gmail.com