Hammering It Out

Good steel takes lots of time and lots of work.

A good story takes the same, I think. I haven't had as much time to work on my writing this semester as I would have liked, but I still have spent many a night trading sleep for the chance to get some work done. Tonight was one such night. Was gonna go to bed early. Got lots of revising done instead.

I'm finished my first revision cycle tonight, actually. While the basic structure of the story is the same, I have done a LOT of work fixing basic grammar stuff. More importantly, though, I've spent a lot of time trying to flesh out themes, to correct problems with the story, and to bring the characters to life and flesh them out as real people. I've gotten good feedback from a number of different people. It's been interesting to listen to the different things that different people comment on, and while I haven't necessarily followed all the advice I've received, I've taken it all into consideration.

I'll shift gears for a bit now and spin some more actual story to weave in. Then I'll be back to hammering away and trying to pound out the impurities in my story. It takes time and its definitely work (not play), but its work that I love doing, and work that I can lose hours to without even realizing it. That's why I want to write stories. Because I really love spending time at the forge, smithing together words and trying to hammer it into something beautiful.