Things I Have Said To Myself Or The Manuscript While Revising Today
Enjoy this look into my brain. And, yes, I said all of these aloud. The cat and I are the only ones here. What I said to her is a million variants of “Not now, Bella!”.:
“Why is he pausing there?!”
“I need a name. Wait. I have a list of names . . . in my purse. Shit.” (My purse is apparently a bag of holding because I have way more in there than should fit. This makes finding the sheet of paper I’m looking for complicated.)
“Wait . . . would Bobby know the word saccharine?”
“Okay, let’s not use the word ‘sappy’ four times in two . . . two times in four . . . whatever, can’t count . . . sentences.”
“Oh, gods, Bobby.”
“‘Wearingly,’ is that the word I’m looking for?”
“‘Wearily,’ is that the word?!”
“‘I was the biggest idiots,’ that’s some good English.”
“Oh my gods, I can’t type.” (This was after misspelling every single word in a sentence. I concluded it was lunch time.)
“Oh my gods, that sentence is horrible.”
“‘Realizing’, there we go!”
“Okay, I made that worse.”
“How do you spell ‘statement’?”
“There we go.”
“I’m not digging this.”
“God, you are such a sleaze.”
“That . . . is kinda crappy.”