Editing…

Posted on October 9, 2014 by Sue Vincent

My shoulders are sore and my eyeballs are crossing
Words dance on the page, with their letters embossing
Themselves on my vision; they’re making no sense now,
I can’t see the point of the past perfect tense now.
Apostrophes, colons and odd prepositions
All vie for attention and seek new positions
I’ve wrestled with adverbs and fought with conjunctions
While adjectives seek to determine their functions.
I’m reading back over the bits I just read,
I just want to finish this edit instead.
There’s no chance, I tell you;
My brain has gone dead.
I’ve had it tonight
And I’m going to bed.
[-_-]

About Sue Vincent

Sue Vincent was a Yorkshire born writer, esoteric teacher and a Director of The Silent Eye. She was immersed in the Mysteries all her life. Sue maintained a popular blog and is co-author of The Mystical Hexagram with Dr G.M.Vasey. Sue lived in Buckinghamshire, having been stranded there due to an accident with a blindfold, a pin and a map. She had a lasting love-affair with the landscape of Albion, the hidden country of the heart. Sue  passed into spirit at the end of March 2021.
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16 Responses to Editing…

  1. The Persecution of Mildred Dunlap says:
    October 9, 2014 at 02:03

    That sounds horribly familiar. The Chicago Manual of Style is following me around. Going to bed is the only sane solution. 🙂

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  3. Cindy Naidoo says:
    October 9, 2014 at 04:57

    Fabulous!

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  4. soireadthisbooktoday says:
    October 9, 2014 at 05:29

    Oy! Do I EVER know the feeling!!!

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  5. jenanita01 says:
    October 9, 2014 at 10:10

    This what the last few months have been like for me, until I said ‘enough is enough’ and sent it off!
    Now, I just have the doubts, did I do enough etc… don’t know what’s worse…
    Jaye

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    • Sue Vincent says:
      October 9, 2014 at 11:14

      Hi Jaye… It doesn’t seem to matter how carefully you edit, there is always something that slips through it seems, and you usually spot it within five minutes of seeing the first full print copy…

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  7. stockdalewolfe says:
    October 9, 2014 at 14:31

    Love it– you’re a wonderful poet!

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