Fickle

The editing is going slow. Sorta like this elderly lady who lived in my small town. We called her Pood. She drove an old Buick slowly, down the center of the street, with the right blinker on. People hit the ditches when they saw her coming. (I grew up in a very small town) Sometime after I graduated from high school, she either died or "they" took away her car keys. (rumor was she never had a license)

Now, I'm wanting to play with my "boy allergic to girls meets demon" story.

I'm just so gosh darn happy I have the urge to read and write again.

P.S. I ducked into Panera to wait out the rain and now it's storming again. I was spellbound by the internet to leave during the pause.

Irksome

I have a few writing pet peeves. I try to avoid the excessive usage of certain words and phrases. My top three irksome words/phrases are:

that
like
as if

They make my blood boil and my eyes cringe when I come across them in a novel I am reading. I can stand them when they are used in moderation, but if a three sentence paragraph contains two "as ifs" I just want to throw the book across the room. There are so many other ways to express imagery.

Is it wrong to stop reading a book because the author pushes my irksome buttons?