I completely agree, Winterfox. A 'true' writer's attitude, IMO <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
Even more fun -- have you ever agonized over a single word in a single sentence for minutes, rather than just go ahead and finish the bloody passage
already? I've had several occasions where a metaphor is desperately strained, or a sentence is hopelessly awful, and it takes several tinkerings to get out something that wouldn't set people's teeth on edge or stick out like a sore thumb.
