Argh.

[auronlu]

Have you ever written, rewritten, and rewritten a section so often that you can't tell if you've sucked all the juice out of it or polished it?

I've been running over the same set of tracks for two weeks now. I'd hoped being mostly-gone a few days would help, but I just sat back in the saddle and found the whole chapter curiously flat, like a carving one has kept whittling until one's peeled away too much wood.