Acts of revision was a bit of a lengthy read but not a second of it was a waste. it was so helpful, not only in tips and instructions but in attitudes and outlooks. It was filled with writer’s very real points of view. There are many of us who, no matter if we are simply students or published writers, will never take ourselves seriously; so hearing our same fears and thoughts come from the brains of some people who we actually might take seriously, it helps. We are all human yet it is so easy to forget. This piece starts off with some inspiring and relatable quotes from other author’s views on revision, and slowly eases you in to real life examples of people’s work. Seeing how a poem changed from many lines, to just three, to three different lines gave me a large sense of relief. I feel as though my draft is a huge piece of work that can be chopped down and almost completely transformed. I thought I had failed at a draft because others drafts seemed to be at the ‘proofreading’ stage while mine needed to go to the butcher. I see that this is okay now. There are many numbered steps towards the end of the piece that have made it very easy for me to follow. Instead of reading the entire piece and just taking the advice and condensing it (which I will also do) they have done the work for me and made it easy to follow. Specifically the appendix is particularly helpful and I will incorporate this and the worksheet that was printed out and given to us in class to revise my draft for Thursday. It is going to be more work for me than for many others but I accept the challenge and hope that this will take my paper to where I want it to be.