Last night, I started to look at my draft and the revision(s) ahead of me. I so want this novel to be done. After throwing away two different versions and hundreds of pages, I want to just be able to be done with it. But if I'm honest with myself, just like I knew those two previous versions were not working, I also know that this novel is not ready either. I have the structure of the story, and now I have find the heart of it. I can only do that through revision. And it will probably take … [Read more...]