is revision the enemy?

Not that I've had a whole lot of time lately to write (stupid grad school), but I have been reading about writing and trying to think of clever ways to deal with the fairy tale characterization issue. I've actually found Writing Magic by Gail Carson Levine, Spilling Ink by Anne Mazer and Ellen Potter, and Take Your Characters to Dinner by Laurel Yourke to be pretty helpful in psyching me up to take on this task. I think maybe I need to always have a writing book on the side available to cheer me up when the going gets tough.

Anyway, I feel a little better about having to revise a million times, since that seems to be par for the course for "real" (read: published) writers.

But as I near the end of one part of my life (school) and head off toward another (being an adult?), I worry that writing isn't as front-and-center in my life as I want it to be and/or thought it would be by this time. Things like earning enough money to eat and attempting to sleep away depression tend to get in the way.

I suppose it all becomes fodder for the story.

I think it's time to invite Horatio and Nori over for tea.