So, I’ve been called out of my hiding (hello, Christine! LOL). I’ve taken a hiatus from blogging, to my family’s general benefit. We now live in a cleaner and more organized home, I think. Well, it hasn’t been all cleaning and cooking and laundry that have taken up my time.
I’ve been neck-deep in revisions. See, I finished my first novel back in January. Now I’m revising heavily. I’ve rewritten whole chunks and chapters of it. I now realize how true it is that first drafts are always sucky. Here’s an example of something in my first draft, that happily has now been hacked out of my manuscript:
She crouched down and, with her hands, felt the object she had stumbled into.
“With her hands”!?!?! Oh, because she’s also been known to use her nose and her big toe to feel things. NOT!
And also, “her eyes followed…” LOL. So now I have an image of a pair of eyeballs rolling and jumping after somebody. Permission to chop away, granted.
Yeah, my first draft was bad that way.
And that is why I need to do revisions and blogging had to take a back seat. Don’t worry, I’m still around. 
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Fantastic! I finished my manuscript in March and am working on revisions as well. Funny that you mentioned this ‘with her hands’ line. I’ve been chopping all sorts of stupid things like that too. Looking with her eyes, touching with her hands. It’s ridiculous the things that actually make it into the first draft. Thank God for revising!
Sarah
Hi Sarah! Isn’t it funny what we put in our first drafts? You’re so right that we should be thankful for revisions!