b!*%# slaps
I'm sitting on the couch the other day and watching TV when Jynx comes over wanting attention. He walks by meowing which his signal for me to pet him. By the way, he is a temperamental Siamese. I pick him up off the ground to hold him while I pet him. Since I am not reclined enough for him to sit on my chest without his claws digging in, I held him in place with my left hand and petted him with my right.
Now earlier in the day, Jynx had tried to run into the garage. The garage is dirty and has some dangers to the kitty. So we keep Jynx out of there. When he tried to run into the garage, I grabbed him by the tail since it was sticking up and easy to grab.
So now I am holding him by the butt so that he can comfortably rest on my chest and get my affection. I didn't realize his tail was still sore from me grabbing him earlier in the day. Jynx let me know by b!*%# slapping me. He gave me about a half a second warning by crying before b!*%# slapping me.
I was stunned and thought that the cat b!*%# slapping me was hilarious. So I started to laugh. What I should have done was let Jynx go.
Next came a double b!*%# slap. First the right paw and then the left. I let the cat go immediately. I'm just glad I had trimmed his toes recently so that he couldn't slice me during the b!*%# slaps.
My writing is sometimes like Jynx; I don't know when to let go. I may write something that when I read it later, comes right off the page and b!*%# slaps me. Usually I try to tinker with the section and get it to not b!*%# slap any future readers. Instead the passage double b!*%# slaps me. I've got to cut the section.
Letting go of any writing is hard. I think writers have a superiority complex and they think everything they write is gold. While confidence in your work is good, knowing when a section is bad and needs cut from the piece is even better.
This is where a critique group helps me the most. I usually love my pieces of writing too much to even notice when a passage b!*%# slaps the reader. It takes another pair of eyes to tell me that something needs changed or cut. Luckily, I don't take this criticism as a b!*%# slap. I try to learn from the advice given and I try not to make the same mistake in my future writing.
Hopefully, there aren't any passages in Shorts: A Collection of Stories that b!*%# slaps readers (especially considering all of the editing that has gone into those stories). If there are, let me know in the comments below.
Now earlier in the day, Jynx had tried to run into the garage. The garage is dirty and has some dangers to the kitty. So we keep Jynx out of there. When he tried to run into the garage, I grabbed him by the tail since it was sticking up and easy to grab.
So now I am holding him by the butt so that he can comfortably rest on my chest and get my affection. I didn't realize his tail was still sore from me grabbing him earlier in the day. Jynx let me know by b!*%# slapping me. He gave me about a half a second warning by crying before b!*%# slapping me.
I was stunned and thought that the cat b!*%# slapping me was hilarious. So I started to laugh. What I should have done was let Jynx go.
Next came a double b!*%# slap. First the right paw and then the left. I let the cat go immediately. I'm just glad I had trimmed his toes recently so that he couldn't slice me during the b!*%# slaps.
My writing is sometimes like Jynx; I don't know when to let go. I may write something that when I read it later, comes right off the page and b!*%# slaps me. Usually I try to tinker with the section and get it to not b!*%# slap any future readers. Instead the passage double b!*%# slaps me. I've got to cut the section.
Letting go of any writing is hard. I think writers have a superiority complex and they think everything they write is gold. While confidence in your work is good, knowing when a section is bad and needs cut from the piece is even better.
This is where a critique group helps me the most. I usually love my pieces of writing too much to even notice when a passage b!*%# slaps the reader. It takes another pair of eyes to tell me that something needs changed or cut. Luckily, I don't take this criticism as a b!*%# slap. I try to learn from the advice given and I try not to make the same mistake in my future writing.
Hopefully, there aren't any passages in Shorts: A Collection of Stories that b!*%# slaps readers (especially considering all of the editing that has gone into those stories). If there are, let me know in the comments below.
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