revision: week six

You know you’re really into the revision when . . .

* the room mate wakes up to you handing her the latest thing you wrote (”Have you gone to bed yet?” she asks).

* you turn on the Food Network and start searching for the show two of your characters are on, and become confused when you don’t find it.

* you develop this sleep-deprived theory that if you don’t turn the page in your weekly calender, you can make time slow down.

 * this thoery also argues that if you don’t got to sleep or leave the house, this creates more time for the revision.

* the roommate comes home and you tell her about the funny thing one of the characters said.

 * you then hand her the latest thing you revised (”Please tell me you went to bed sometime today” she says).

* you start to wonder if the novel’s secret ambition is to teach everyone in the world how to say “darkness” in other languages (french: obscurité, italian: oscurità, spanish: oscuridad, german: Finsternis, latin: obscurum).

* leave the house? Go to sleep? Is the room mate mad?! These thing has to be mailed next week.

* paying FedEx to overnight the novel doesn’t sound so bad anymore (as long as it’s delivered to the agent before you see him at the workshop in two weeks).

 * you finally go to bed, and the phone rings, and for a moment you think it’s the characters calling to find out where you are.

Written by Luisa Prieto

Dark fantasy writer by day, dark fantasy writer by night. I'm charmingly dull that way ;)
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