Digifuss

Editing is one of my favorite parts about the writing process. It’s the elimination of the unnecessary. It’s quick and brutal. It’s taking a rough piece of work and shaping it into something more.

Editing is fun.

Rewriting, now that’s a different matter.

I am halfway through editing the book I wrote a bajillion years ago as a stay at home mom, and it’s amazing how well the editing process is going. This is crap! This is good. This isn’t even possible. Who’d believe this? Extra words, gone. Extra characters, deleted. Romantic interest: expand on. It’s all clear, what needs to be done. Wee! It’s fun, to edit, criticize, and point out faults!

And by the end of the week, I’ll have a marked up manuscript, and this marked up manuscript will have to be rewritten.

This is just as important a step as any other, but it’s the one that causes the most hair-twisting, hand-wringing, soul-deep cries of anguish.

And I’m doing it to myself.

Can I just geek out for a minute on Dr. Who?

But not my website.

I can’t geek out on my website because it’s not cool enough yet. Mostly it’s words. With few videos. Or links. But hey, that’s okay.

Because my plan over the next few months is to make my website as cool as Stetsons.

The Dr. Who Stetson, of course.

April 23rd.

Yes. Girl Geek. What can I say?

I love The Word on the Colbert Show.

I love the idea of making up a word, and occasionally do, because sometimes a well-made up word just explains things more clearly than an existing word.

Which should tell us a lot about the world we live in, when of all the words we have, there still aren’t enough words to adequately express things clearly.

And for the life of me I can’t figure out if ‘there’ used in the above paragraph is used correctly. There. Their. They are.

Today’s word is Flubbergust. Flubbergusted. Flubbergusting.

Not like flabbergasted, which generally conveys astonishment, or a state of astonished shock.

Flubbergust is a panicked state that results in talking excessively fast, stuttering, talking excessively fast and stuttering, flailing hands about, pulling your hair out and pacing in a circle so fast while doing all of the above, because something has flabbergasted you.

Used as the following: I’m just feeling flubbergusted.

She should calm down, she’s flubbergusting so much no one can understand her.

What is he so flubbergusted about, it’s just a little purple venetian coming to say hi.

And that’s my Wednesday word.