Theme of my days...

Well, I am still obsessing over my spine tingler for the 3-6 year old crowd, and I have to say, even though I knew the revision would be a long, slow process, I have discovered that revision really is a looong, slooooow, process, even for me. Allow me to explain that.
Intellectually, I knew revision would take time , but I must admit that in my almost-subconscious -mind i was thinking something like this - It takes other writers ages to revise, but my first draft is vastly superior to the first drafts of other writers , therefore I wont have to spent as long on revision as other writers.
Shhh- do you hear that? Its the sound of my bubble popping....

Oh well.

I have re-written pretty much every word of my 1000 odd word manuscript, at least twice. At least twice. And I'm not done yet. I feel like I'm almost done, but I have felt like that for weeks, it seems like.

I feel like this guy. Never mind that I'm not a guy, i dont smoke, and I'm not (sigh) skinny. I feel like him.
I am much more appreciative of writers than I was two weeks ago. They deserve higher pay and more benefits and all-round adulation. After all, can you imagine a world without writers? (hey that could be a plot right there!)

btw have you read this and this? I have, in fact maybe that accounts for my not-super-optimistic mood.... interesting stuff though, i like to hear what its really like in the publishing world. I think.