I revise differently when I'm writing YA than when I'm writing adult, which means I write differently, though I'm not conscious of it at the time. My adult books have taken pages of notes to revise. My YAs usually have a list of maybe a dozen things to check for, plus whatever tweaking I do along the way.
But if I stop to revise along the way, I get bogged down, and I still don't get it right and have to do at least one pass-through and more often two or three (pre-submission; at this point I don't know how many will be required pre-publication, and it may be twenty bazillion for all of me). I have to have the whole book in front of me, even if it's wrong, in order to get the whole book right. I can't just get the right Chapter One and have it lead to the right Chapter Two and so on.
I have no idea how much this is related to writing non-sequentially.
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Date: 2004-08-27 08:47 am (UTC)But if I stop to revise along the way, I get bogged down, and I still don't get it right and have to do at least one pass-through and more often two or three (pre-submission; at this point I don't know how many will be required pre-publication, and it may be twenty bazillion for all of me). I have to have the whole book in front of me, even if it's wrong, in order to get the whole book right. I can't just get the right Chapter One and have it lead to the right Chapter Two and so on.
I have no idea how much this is related to writing non-sequentially.