Varieties of Insanity Known to Affect Authors
Let’s see–which of these have I suffered from?
You must not love my book if you want me to make all these changes.
My first novel took a long time to write, but now that I’ve been through the process and gotten my feet under me, the rest should go much faster.
Your editorial comments are brilliant. I adore them. No one has ever understood my writing as well as you have. I am now so paralyzed that I can’t revise the book.
I know you’ve been afflicted by a few of these too (as noted by the folks at the Making Light blog.)
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