Shamelessly awful, unabashedly dire... you name it, that's what I'm going for!

(Sorry, I've just really missed that emoticon!)
Imogen, I know what you mean about the editing. One of the reasons why I'm such a slow writer is that everything I write has to be word-perfect and phrased exactly right, virtually from the start. That's one of the reasons why I'm going to have a go at NaNoWriMo, to force myself simply to churn stuff out and actually
write, without all the obsessive editing!
I'm quaking in my boots.