panik | God, I'm depressed.

One, just one, of the many things I have to do today is re-write the first two chapters of my book and send it out to new agents.

The agency I approached first don't want it; one of their criticisms is that it's set in the recent past, so I'm taking out anything that points to it being a few years ago (nothing in Cuba has really changed since I made this trip so it's not really a biggie), leaving the time-frame ambiguous and trying again with three new agencies.

In total, I had to ditch three paragraphs. A simple enough task.

But now, everytime I read it through, to make sure it all still flows together, I come across something else that is just B.A.D. I've written and re-written and re-re-written and now I'm utterly convinced that the whole thing is a big, steaming pile of stinking poo. Or is it? I don;t know. I have no perspective on it at all anymore.

Man...

It's now 13.05. This is all I've done today and I'm no closer to completion than I was at 8.00 this morning.

Shit.

I'm having a bad, bad day.

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All I can do is echo what others have said: stop, put it down, walk away. Go back to it when you feel better, or (even better) when you suddenly *know* exactly what you're doing with that scene. Then you'll be fine.

::hugs::

And no chocolate on the Tesco order? What were you thinking?!

I'm going to warm up my juices with some fic them take a freah look at it (though the thought of doing that makes my heart sink). Hopefully, it'll all look a bit better this morning.

Thanks for the hugs hone and yeah - no chocolate. I'm big as a house right now! O:

God, I'm depressed.

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