Tediousness and the Finished Product

I watched Ready Player One in 3D last week, and I thought that it was really good. For someone like me who has a channel talking about things like anime, manga, movies, etc, and was/is a gamer, this movie resonated with me quite a bit. In what movie could I see Mecha Godzilla fight against The Iron Giant (from the movie, not Final Fantasy) and a Gundam? That type of creativity and nostalgia is why I really like “story” in general.

I just finished re-editing the first chapter of The Mustard Prince in the Condiment Kingdom. This is the third or fourth time that I re-edited it, but now that I have a deeper understanding of “voice,” it just felt that I had to do it to put my best foot forward to potential literary agents and the reading audience in general. I have a lot more to do, but this has taught me that the finished product is not going to look like the initial product, and that we obviously don’t do everything perfectly the first time.

The process is tedious, for sure, but it can be fun too. I do feel that I made the story funnier due to these re-edits and much more descriptive too. I also feel that I have a better grasp of what to look out for as far writing more descriptively and getting into the characters and story. I suppose that it is all just a part of the learning process.