Revision Day.... uh.....8?

Hello! I know I haven't posted in six days, but I was busy. Unfortunately, I wasn't really busy doing anything creative, or for work, or anything else, but whatever. What do you want from me?

Actually, I did a lot of reading this past weekend and completed rereading A Room of One's Own and first time reading A Moveable Feast. I've recently started The Beautiful and the Damned, and I'm already kind of questioning where the hell it's going. I WOULD be reading The Good Soldier, but it was stolen from me by someone whose name begins with D, ends with D, and has an "a" in the middle. No surprise there.

I have also, believe it or not, been legitimately working on my revisions. I've gotten through the first ten chapters, and have been finding pieces that I don't like and need to fix, or just phrasing problems. Whenever I find such things, I leave myself helpful notes.

Example of helpful notes:

That is apparently what I do when my descriptions start putting *me* to sleep. When in doubt, have people talk about how ugly the house is! Yeah!

Also, thank you for answers to my previous entry's question about backstory. Though Ecclesiastes (I'm expanding your Biblical scope, St. Mark) was the only one to respond via blog, I actually got some texts about the matter, so thanks for those!! Like I said, I'm just worried about pushing the backstory too much when it isn't going to be mentioned in this first book fully, but I know it's something people will have to read to judge. Thanks again!

In other news, Hemingway grabbed up my manuscript yesterday and started randomly critiquing a page in the middle, which didn't really do much for my self esteem because how stupid does everything sound halfway through with no sense of what the heck is going on? However, he later told me that he thought I was "almost there", which I think was meant to insinuate that I was "almost there" in terms of having good writing, instead of "almost there" to the point of sucking. I think. I hope.

Woolf, Ecclesiastes, I will leave the ultimate decision of book burning to you. Whenever I finish my damn revisions and rewrites. Again. Bwaaaaaaaa.

Also, everyone say hello to William Faulkner!! She's got her own blog up and running, so go take a look at it and leave meaningful commentary! Though you might not want to call her William Faulkner over there. People will get confused.