tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083612851716281896.post8613787127750376170..comments2024-03-28T02:34:34.041-07:00Comments on Rachna's Scriptorium: Sending the Inner Editor on a Long HolidayRachna Chhabriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16900999965919504282noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083612851716281896.post-47372894961320347022010-07-12T12:23:48.597-07:002010-07-12T12:23:48.597-07:00Oh how we suffer with our inner editors! I can to...Oh how we suffer with our inner editors! I can totally relate to this post. Glad you sent yours packing on a nice, long trip.Julie Musilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02150454913885915017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083612851716281896.post-27281398093729803552010-07-12T10:45:34.625-07:002010-07-12T10:45:34.625-07:00Elizabeth, I can just visualise you and your inner...Elizabeth, I can just visualise you and your inner editor having that conversation. Its nice that you both have come to a truce. <br /><br />Jayne.....my moralistic inner editor is pretty troublesome, it often makes me do extensive rewrites. I too wonder how crime fiction writers tackle their morals, its something I may not be able to do, though crime fic is my favourite. <br /><br />Kate, I have an inner conflict and an external conflict. The inner conflict is with my conscience and the external conflict is what my protagonist has to battle.<br />At times I have to struggle to suppress my extra cautious inner editor.Rachna Chhabriahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16900999965919504282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083612851716281896.post-15549874778774895582010-07-12T05:49:33.277-07:002010-07-12T05:49:33.277-07:00I absolutely understand where you are coming from....I absolutely understand where you are coming from. The urge to make my main characters perfect decision-makers and role-models for every child is maddening. The result is that I end up with more interesting secondary characters because they're more real with flaws. <br /><br />I think I just have to keep reminding myself that a book is, in many ways, about a character arc. If your main character is perfect from the beginning, what can they learn? How can they improve? And how would a reader ever relate? <br /><br />It's definitely a struggle for me though. Great post!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083612851716281896.post-20086457151706148102010-07-12T04:10:42.701-07:002010-07-12T04:10:42.701-07:00Good post. I am fine with all I write (at the mome...Good post. I am fine with all I write (at the moment), nothing troubles my moralistic inner editor. Although it depends how dark I go - I've always wondered how crime fic writers balance their morals.Jaynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11309191526500602452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083612851716281896.post-13497270230130680402010-07-10T06:52:07.767-07:002010-07-10T06:52:07.767-07:00I really liked this post! My inner editor and I h...I really liked this post! My inner editor and I had to come to an agreement long ago:<br />Me: "I'll call you when I need you."<br />InEd: "I'll be here if you need me."<br /><br />So far, we have a good truce. Although I think I need to call that editor more about my spelling!Elizabeth Varadan, Authorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01708206753256682635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083612851716281896.post-73785495033510801262010-07-10T03:07:07.645-07:002010-07-10T03:07:07.645-07:00Elizabeth...I can empathize with you.As you are in...Elizabeth...I can empathize with you.As you are in a purely editing mode, I am sure your editor must be driving you up the wall. I love the idea of NaNoWriMo, its a time when we can really leave our personal editors far behind. <br /><br />Thanks for the tag, I will hop over to ur blog, to see what it is all about.<br /><br /><br />Lydia..I am still having problems with blogger.<br /><br /><br />Rahma,the germ of a good idea does come when we blather on long enough. I have noticed it in my writing too.Rachna Chhabriahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16900999965919504282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083612851716281896.post-19760246292886858242010-07-10T02:57:22.349-07:002010-07-10T02:57:22.349-07:00Terri, our inner editors are definitely closely re...Terri, our inner editors are definitely closely related. I too toss him (or is it her) out when I am writing the first draft.<br /><br />Lydia,I always wonder what other writers do with their inner editors. Though you lock your editor in a closet, I prefer sending it on a long holiday.<br /><br />Pradeep, my editor is absolutely censoring. Honestly, its job is to make my life miserable. I like your suggestion " Send the Inner Editor on holiday, but let him come and have a look at your creation and make suggestions. After that send him away again. And you, without any fetters, make the final choice." Will try and follow it. <br /><br />Anne...your, Terri's and my editor is definitely related. An honest confession, I can't deny mine for long either.Rachna Chhabriahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16900999965919504282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083612851716281896.post-69489036967418157102010-07-09T20:02:25.334-07:002010-07-09T20:02:25.334-07:00Rachna: I really like how you personified your inn...Rachna: I really like how you personified your inner editor as a separate being. What a great technique! The inner editor hovering over our shoulders should be sent packing for the first draft!<br /><br />I've finally trained myself to 'spew' out anything when I have no idea where I'm going, something my inner editor absolutely hates. But when I blather on long enough, I always find some germ of a good idea emerge and I know it was because I neutralized that pesky 'inner editor' even if temporarily.Rahma Krambohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03665417367388858304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083612851716281896.post-53791882435729001202010-07-09T11:01:43.859-07:002010-07-09T11:01:43.859-07:00Okay, I am having the same blogger problem as you ...Okay, I am having the same blogger problem as you are now! Ha ha.Lydia Kanghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00484415427764822386noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083612851716281896.post-71710632607437696302010-07-09T10:42:41.849-07:002010-07-09T10:42:41.849-07:00Hi beautiful! What a cute post--I love how your vo...Hi beautiful! What a cute post--I love how your voice shines through! ;)<br /><br />I so totally empathize with you on this! Right now I'm on pure editing mode--my editor is employed over full time as I comb over my WIP.<br /><br />When I wrote my previous book, I did it during <a href="http://www.nanowrimo.org/" rel="nofollow">NaNoWriMo</a>. I had to leave my editor behind. Really. I learned how to just let it flow because of the pressure of getting in 50K in one month. Ugh...but it worked!<br /><br />Try timing yourself and set a goal of writing so many K's that day and see if you can beat yourself at your own goal. OR! Get together with a writer friend and set up a challenge between the both of you. I'd so do this with you, but I have about 35 chapters of editing + to go over :(<br /><br />Oh! Btw, <a href="http://elizabethmueller.blogspot.com/2010/07/tagged-whats-in-my-bag.html" rel="nofollow">tag</a>, you're it! ;)Elizabeth Muellerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06028099814857743134noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083612851716281896.post-84740851670490741162010-07-09T10:36:29.932-07:002010-07-09T10:36:29.932-07:00Do we have the same inner editor? I can't deny...Do we have the same inner editor? I can't deny mine for long. In fact, I'm going to start editing the novel I'm working on way before I finish it. It's just one of those things that is eating away at me. I know it can be better and I want it to be now. ;)Tanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10518718614911804428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083612851716281896.post-6835798113003658762010-07-09T09:55:57.086-07:002010-07-09T09:55:57.086-07:00Interesting, Rachna. In my case, there's no in...Interesting, Rachna. In my case, there's no inner editor, I'm the editor!!!<br />For nearly 7 hours a day, six days a week, I pause and ponder over the choices I have to make while selecting and diplaying the content for the publication I work for. So when I write, I have to transform myself. Not easy, to dislodge something that's so well entrenched within me.<br /><br />But the editor, inner or outer or whatever, has his/her place. That second and third thought (what editor does) gives the creation a polish. Sometimes that edior actually encourages you to write something, you as a person is hesitating to. So editor's job is not just about censoring and cutting out. The editor plays a valuable role of tempering and polishing your thought process, giving the final product a neat finish.<br /><br />My suggestion: send the Inner Editor on holiday, but let him come and have a look at your creation and make suggestions. After that send him away again. And you, without any fetters, make the final choice.Pradeep Nairhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04873369124947878452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083612851716281896.post-13407399926196842352010-07-09T08:08:33.140-07:002010-07-09T08:08:33.140-07:00The inner editor is an absolute monster during my ...The inner editor is an absolute monster during my first draft. I try to send her into a locked closet but she always gets out!<br />A few people have had had problems posting comment on blogger, but I haven't. Sorry my blog gave you trouble today!<br />:)Lydia Kanghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00484415427764822386noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083612851716281896.post-8345895413980038082010-07-09T07:24:17.667-07:002010-07-09T07:24:17.667-07:00LOL Your inner editor and mine must be related. I ...LOL Your inner editor and mine must be related. I had to toss him this last time around when I added words to my already WIP. I wanted to write it the way it needed to come out. Now he's back as I go over it --but that's his place:)Terri Tiffanyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07771622379178654235noreply@blogger.com