Fascinating, because I had the same thing happen as the result of a conference critique--all because of a casual remark by the critiquer. I'm also having the "only working in small spurts" thing with this.
Is that the nature of such complete revisions? Guess we'll find out.
A-ha moments can be a blessing or a curse. lol Is yours a PB or novel? I think my spurts is a reaction to my mind shutting down to where I need to go to "just try it" as Linda Sue Park says. It's working so far, so I'll go with it. When I open the document and can't do anything, I'll start the "I stink" phase.
True confession: I would rather revise a novel than a picture book any day of the week. With a novel, when I'm stuck on Chapter 12, there are always Chapters 1-11 and 13-25, and by the time I've done something with them and feel competent again, I can revisit 12. With picture books, I end up feeling like I either have the answer, or I don't (and usually the latter) and with so few words in all, there's nowhere to go when I'm stuck.
Yes, but if you change something in a novel, the snowball effect is many more pages. Say you take out a character. You have to go back and change relationships, dialogue, setting, blah, blah, blah. No thank you. ;-)
"with so few words in all, there's nowhere to go when I'm stuck" That's why I'm working in spurts (not sure where to go yet).
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I'm also having the "only working in small spurts" thing with this.
Is that the nature of such complete revisions? Guess we'll find out.
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"with so few words in all, there's nowhere to go when I'm stuck" That's why I'm working in spurts (not sure where to go yet).
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