Wednesday, August 10, 2005

The Problem with Cutting...

One problem with cutting down texts is this -- when I go home tonight and the wife asks if I got a lot of work done today, all I'm going to be able to say is "I cut about 20 pages from an article," which doesn't sound nearly as good as "I wrote 20 pages today" -- even though the former is more difficult and painful.

2 comments:

  1. ...even though the former is more difficult and painful.
    Hah! Try writing fiction, then tell me you still believe that!

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  2. The problem, Mac, is that you have to cut twenty pages of stuff you've already written! Cutting twenty pages of other people's text is hard, but cutting twenty pages of your own text is torment.

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