This is the kind of morning where I feel like hitting my head against the wall, because nothing else seems to be working.

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I hate it when I feel like a total moron, but maybe if I re-learn the same lesson often enough it'll eventually stick.

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The symptoms were:
-- my reviewers weren't sucked into my manuscript, it was too easy for them to put down, hell, I got bored with it
-- I read a book where the author was FAR too close to one point in the story and really distant in several other places, and I didn't know how she did it
-- I caught myself writing 'get closer' in the margins of this manuscript and didn't know what was wrong or how I was supposed fix it
-- And the first big kiss of the book was cardboard.

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I guess the goot news is that I know how to fix it... the bad news is there's a lot of fixing to be done. I also re-thought one of the ghosts... so today I'll go back through the 300 pages I thought I was done with and fix stuff... a standing still day.