Give it a few decades. You know you've been working on editing one of your own novels for reissue for too long when you feel like you've been in a knock-down-drag-out fight with a two-decades-younger version of yourself . . . and aren't entirely sure you won.
(I have to go through the pageproofs for the Baen Guardians reissues, and it's a combination of a lot of fun and some close-to-physical agony. Thank God I've only got one more omnibus to do; I can find other things to do that are more fun, and I wouldn't mind skipping the agony.)
That said, you know the old saw about what's necessary to make a great painting, I suppose?
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Date: 2004-04-19 08:01 pm (UTC)(I have to go through the pageproofs for the Baen Guardians reissues, and it's a combination of a lot of fun and some close-to-physical agony. Thank God I've only got one more omnibus to do; I can find other things to do that are more fun, and I wouldn't mind skipping the agony.)
That said, you know the old saw about what's necessary to make a great painting, I suppose?
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Date: 2004-04-19 08:39 pm (UTC)Nah.
Date: 2004-04-19 09:50 pm (UTC)2. Somebody to shoot him when it's actually finished.