Revision progress report

I wanted to write my revision progress report, but I'm so tired I don't remember what I wanted to write about. I only know that I wasted a week on revising the same piece for the third time, but, when I read it to my critique partner again, she said that she liked the previous version much better, even with its faults. It then occurred to me that all I had to do was to get rid of the faults and not to rewrite the whole thing over again - now in great detail, which completely ruined it all. Funnily enough, I did what my critique partner wanted me to do: explain everything. But, once explained, it robbed the story of its layer of mystery. Less is more, it seems, when it comes to revision and, of course, to how much information you want your reader to receive. I mean, some things should be left untold...

Revision progress report

Apparently two weeks weren't enough to weed and wade through a backstory-packed piece that I'm working on at the moment. But it is something of a challenge to put together a conversation where one party's knowledge is based on lies and the other's on conjectures. I was discouraged and vexed yesterday when, while I was reading out the piece to my critique partner, I discovered that it was flawed and unsatisfactory and that I failed to think through a number of important points! I'm trying to rectify my oversights now... in longhand... not as a penance! I find the sight of a blank page of a note-book inviting, whereas I find the sight of a blank document on my computer intimidating.

Revision progress report

There are some particularly stubborn and thorny patches in the story that I keep weeding and weeding and weeding and then, when I think that I've conquered it all, I come back only to find that it has overgrown with weeds again...

Revision progress report

I'm enjoying revising my fantasy book so much, I'm rather doubtful of my ability and wish to stop!

Revision progress report

I really like it. My book. I'm not quite sure if I've never known or if I've forgotten that revision can be so much fun. I'm having a real blast right now, even though my main characters keep having cat-fights all the time. I actually had to cut out one scene, because I decided that they were too "catty" with each other. But it's so much easier and so much fun working with the text, that has already been written, adding bits and pieces and, as my critique partner said, "populating it" with stuff and substance.

revision in full swing...

The Great Revision has officially begun!