Monday 25 February 2008

Odd

How you can write something and be pleased with it.


Then a little later, you read it back and hate it.

Pretentious, badly constructed and vacuous.

This is made even worse by not being able to work out how you delete one, so now I feel both inadequate and incompetent.

And (he said, beginning a sentence with a preposition) today looked like it was starting SO well...

3 comments:

quin browne said...

cormac mccarthy starts large numbers of his sentences with the preposition 'and'.

his work is so rich, it makes me fat simply by reading it...so, stop worrying about that particular issue.

Unknown said...

Ah, but it's a bit like your childhood religious training - you may not keep to the commandments, but you can't help that feeling of guilt when you break them.

quin browne said...

oh, i revel in breaking some of them.