Yay for rewrites! I love finding something, looking at it and going: I can make this sooooooooooooooooooo much better. I've got a lot of stuff like that (as I wrote endlessly in middle and high school).
I think it's satisfying because you're saving something that you'd once given up on. It's different from the knitting because knitting was very much in the present with progress and the writing has already taken a dormant sleep before you started to revive it.
Ha. I bet they wind up like I was upon rereading, staring at the novel and muttering to themselves, "Well, that doesn't make any sense at all. I thought this was about a midwife, and now we're in the middle of a major international conflict. And somehow, I didn't see that coming."
It's different if you see it coming. Trust me. Ouch at that memory.
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I think it's satisfying because you're saving something that you'd once given up on. It's different from the knitting because knitting was very much in the present with progress and the writing has already taken a dormant sleep before you started to revive it.
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Also, thank you for Number 3. I don't get writers who say that they have no idea where the plot is going to end up as they write.
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It's different if you see it coming. Trust me. Ouch at that memory.
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