March 1, 2010
Tags:
Louis XIV, writing, revision, sighs, Athenais, Louise de la Valliere, Henriette
Well, I finished revisions on Friday. I felt like I'd been "rode hard and put up wet" or as they say in Louisiana, no salt in the beans....exhausted mentally, unable to have the smallest reaction to any of the writing. This will be the 4th or 5th time I've redone the manuscript. Anyway, I'm sitting on it this week to see if anything comes to mind. Then I email it to Crown, and we shall see. I'm worried I've made Louis's story (this small piece of his life is so interesting to me--I like the person I imagine he was here because of his tenderness to someone) too serious.
