{"id":280,"date":"2010-03-30T05:32:04","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T05:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daisysgarden.ca\/?p=280"},"modified":"2010-03-30T05:32:04","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T05:32:04","slug":"editing-the-harder-part-of-creating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proverbs31momma.com\/index.php\/2010\/03\/30\/editing-the-harder-part-of-creating\/","title":{"rendered":"Editing&#8230;the harder part of creating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, it&#8217;s late, I&#8217;ve done what seems like very little today. I guess that&#8217;s because everything I did today was tidying up little things. I finished the waist bands on two very cute little skirts for lil&#8217; A&#8217;s birthday next week (sigh). And ironed. Ironing is right along side vacuuming-some people say &#8216;wife abuse&#8217; but I really think that&#8217;s an awful saying. So I just say it is just a very awful chore&#8230;and trade off and on with my husband.<\/p>\n<p>That all being said, I really missed my creative side today. I am looking forward to two nice and easy projects tomorrow. I&#8217;ll post photos when I&#8217;m done.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve been reading along with my writing since blogspot (ok, it&#8217;s only been a few months, but anyway) you know that I have been working on a piece of fiction. Well, 6 years, 10 months, 14 days &amp; \u00a059857 words later, I&#8217;m finished. Friday night I stayed up until 3 am to finish. I had been contemplating the ending for quite sometime. I haven&#8217;t had enough time to sit and write it all in one sitting. Now that lil&#8217; A sleeps the night again, I can go back to my &#8220;Owl&#8221; habits a bit. 7:30am still comes with \u00a0a lot of loud talking from a certain little sweet pea.<\/p>\n<p>Back to the book. Now, I&#8217;m editing. I sent it to a friend who&#8217;s been rooting for me all along to finish and felt awful when I started to reread it tonight. Lots of spelling mistakes with all the super fast typing I do. I must always keep up with how fast my brain is cranking out thoughts. That is very hard seeing as I am always thinking, sometimes at a &#8220;20 over the limit&#8221; speed.<\/p>\n<p>The neat thing to see is that from when I started the journey of writing this book, I had a very different mind for the book. At the time, I was really questioning my decisions in life in general. The fun part was it&#8217;s fiction. I exaggerated a lot, changed a lot. So don&#8217;t think, &#8220;Oh, I know her, so I know how her books ends&#8221;. Well, you don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>More over I really want the book to speak to people. It was really fun for me and brought me to a place of healing in my emotional life and a place of greater understand of how God really does know what he is doing. We really should listen.<\/p>\n<p>If I keep talking about it, I&#8217;ll give it all away-and that wouldn&#8217;t be good for book sales. But I will say, the editing process isn&#8217;t as fun or as creative because you can&#8217;t just write. You have to think about &#8220;how&#8221; you&#8217;ve written and not just what. See, I&#8217;m already learning something new!<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have any fabulous photos to share with you tonight. Hopefully tomorrow. This past weekend, I made a huge list of everything that I need to do. We just installed carpet in the basement and well, now I have to clean. I actual wrote &#8220;filter boxes&#8221; on my list. More like &#8220;sift with a fine tooth comb&#8221;&#8230;although my husband&#8217;s suggestion was a &#8220;surprise box&#8221; garage sale-every box $10. Must not open until you leave! No returns, exchanges or dropping off on our front lawn! I&#8217;m a teacher-a kindergarten teacher at that. We love neat little knick nacks!<\/p>\n<p>For some reason I feel I could go on and go and tell you about life in general. It may be because I have been by myself a lot lately with lil A. Work has taken T away for a few months. He&#8217;s home at night, but often goes to sleep pretty fast. Anyway. I&#8217;ll be very ready for a vacation in June!<\/p>\n<p>Well&#8230;I&#8217;m off to edit. Hopefully tomorrow brings more creativity. I am really thinking about bringing out the paint for lil&#8217; A. I feel a little courage coming on, as I&#8217;ve really missed painting on almost a daily basis being on Maternity leave. Perhaps I&#8217;ll post photos!<\/p>\n<p>Happy Creative Week!<\/p>\n<p>Krystle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, it&#8217;s late, I&#8217;ve done what seems like very little today. I guess that&#8217;s because everything I did today was tidying up little things. 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