Heartening

Greg van Eekhout, after discarding a chapter:

Sometimes writing is like being the director, cast, DP, grip, and greensman, and watching in horror as the entire production reveals itself to be a troop of rabid and incontinent dancing poodles.

aaronjv, in response:

In which case, you do the next logical thing: turn the cameras around to film the film crew.

Or you post about it on your blog, I guess.