Editing Workshop

Today was the editing workshop, and while I think writing groups are very helpful, I was relieved to have some one-on-one time with my paper, just me and it. Okay, so it wasn't just me and the paper, my green felt tip joined the fun too. Since I don't have much to say about anything else, I thought I'd elaborate on what a ridiculous sense of accomplishment I get from drawing circles and lines all over my essay. There's just so much you can do! There's spelling to be checked, commas to be analyzed, word choice to criticize, sentences to swap, structure to change, paragraphs to be eliminated, and smiley faces to be awarded. It's to the point where half of the doodles don't even mean anything, I just like making them. There are very few things that make me feel as important as a piece of my writing that appears to have been edited to death.