Nothing frustrates me quite so much as having to rewrite.
I am, for the most part,a single drafter. Before I put pen to paper, indeed before I *can* put pen to paper, I've thought up an outline for my argument. I know what the structure of the argument will be. I know what research I'm going to use and how I'm going to use it. And often, because I've spent so much time on the issue before committing it to paper, that I have a sense for the conclusion as well*.
And this elaborateness with which I've planned my paper makes any further revision a real pest.
The other reason I find revision and rewriting painful is a lot more vain. Sometimes, I find that rewriting needs me to to tear myself away from words and turns of phrase with which I've fallen in love.
And for both these reasons, I've been in an progressively serious funk today.
I'm exhausted and irritable. Best go sleep this off, I think.
*okay, sometimes, I admit, the conclusion surprises, at other times, it disappoints. Even so.
3 comments:
Ahhhh I feel your pain. I hate revising...and writing proposals (which I need to do this week)...wish you good luck, though! :)
Does it always turn out the way you see it in your head?
Because it almost never does for me.
Pearls and Jades - Good luck! I have no doubt that you will rock it.
Sita - No. Nearly never.
I mean... all the ideas that I want go in - and often into the sections I want them to. But it doesn't quite turn out exactly the way I imagined. Sometimes the ideas I have work really well on paper. Sometimes, they turn into cold goopy goop. :-/
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