wildcat

Today's been productive! I went to Technical Writing and sat through the class, took a stupid quiz, then went to pick up the workshop comments on "Cat Burglar," got my next story photo-copied, stopped by to say hi to Jo, and headed home. I'm working on the "Cat" revisions, going scene by scene and rewriting it from scratch (with a few grafted in bits from the original, I'm sure, but none yet). I'll be alternating between that and critiquing the three stories we're discussing in class on Wednesday.

Revisions are, I find, enjoyable to do. My writing is never going to be perfect and never going to be as strong as I expect it to be, so with revisions it actually feels like I'm doing something worthwhile and productive, because I get to go through and figure out exactly what needs work. I get to correct a couple of those niggling technical errors that I forget because I never proofread enough (usually because by the time I print I've been staring at the story for too long and miss them). It feels extremely creative.

As an aside, picked up Nick Bantock's Urgent 2nd Class, a book on collage work and "found" art, dubious documents and remastered maps. I'd like to do more graphic design work and visual art in the future, and my weird obsessive love of collage has been coming back again.