Revisions

Robin, the bastard, has spent over an hour tonight attempting to convince me that my work all needs revision. And even though i got a little hot with him for the thinly veiled implication that most of my writing was less than perfect, i have been conditioned all my life to listen to robin when he's being reasonable, because three out of five times he's much better informed than me, and knows what he's talking about. And goddammit, although i didn't want to believe it, because believing it would mean i needed to do more work, and that my writing wasn't as AWESOME as i thought it was the first time through, when i calmed down i went through all the pieces that i'd posted (all, what, four of them?), and damned if they don't need some cleanup. So now i've got to do more work.

The first part of that work being me devising a system in which i can revise without cluttering these pages with the same stories over and over. So i've spent the last twenty minutes thinking about that, and i've come up with a system, and it is thus: the title of every posted story will have a specific format, which will be:

Title [(x) n]

where x = the number of revisions (with 1 being the starting value of a just finished story, because zero seems silly, and besides, i do some rough and dirty revising as i write, when lines stop feeling right), and n = the date of the last revision. So this post title, if it were a story, would be "Revisions [(1) 9/20/2008]".

This system has its flaws, of course. It doesn't leave older revisions open for examination, it doesn't track the times of prior revisions, only the most recent, and the status of a revision that totally fails and forces me to go back to a prior one is completely up in the air (if revision 3 is so terrible i just do another revision off of revision 2, is the new revision revision 4? Or revision 3.1?). But. Whatever. I'll burn these bridges when i come to them. For now, let the revisions begin.