enamoured | a writer's life for me.

I both love and hate going to meetings of my library's writing group. I love it because I get lots of helpful tips from other people, and I hate it because sometimes, it makes me want to throw out every single thing I've written. And then I read people's very literary and verbose discussions about what is wrong/right with YA lit, and that's most of what I write, and it makes me very self-conscious and that just further makes me anxious about keeping on.

And then, just when I think I want to rewrite something that I shared with the group earlier tonight, I end up reediting a scene for the fifth time and I think I've finally got it right.

Only now I have to recontexualize the scene. Great. Just great.