This is just about right. When I started writing several years ago my dreams and aspirations were high! I had so much drive and so much inspiration and just knew that the novel would fall beautifully into place. Now as I'm trudging through the editing process (the HUGE white part in the second graph) I find myself falling into the "Wishing I'd never started the bloody thing" section. I have to keep reminding myself that if I don't get the story out of my head it'll never be told, plus the characters would probably make me schizophrenic with their constant blathering in there. I just have to remember even though it may not be the greatest tale in history it still deserves a voice. So while I laugh at the graphs, and secretly cry at the truth in them, I will continue slogging through the muddy mess of editing! BLAH!!!!
P.S. Doesn't the tooth fairy have a long lost editing fairy cousin somewhere or did that fairy say "to hell with it" and wind up drunk in an Irish pub? I see now why some of the best writers were drunks and addicts, if the writing process didn't drive them to it then the editing did!! :)
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