Personally, I'm constantly noting scenes that need to be added or deleted or replaced. But I'm generally on barrel ahead mode at that point.
That's me; I'll note something suprising (which is usually loud enough in my house that it wakes the kids if it's one of those horrible twists that so fits the book that so wasn't planned, I have to step back and give the characters time to react), but I can't go back.
I learned this with the first novel -- I got bogged down for weeks revising and rewriting one section that simply did not work, and I was pretty much ready at the fiftieth attempt, to just throw the whole damn mess against the wall and start something -- anything -- else, and my husband finally said, "Fix it later." And I thought, Oh, wait, I can do that.
It was very liberating.
I think I know enough now that I could go back and revise -- but I sometimes lose the immediacy of the now of the book if I do, so I tend to do what lnhammer does.
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Date: 2004-08-27 09:43 am (UTC)That's me; I'll note something suprising (which is usually loud enough in my house that it wakes the kids if it's one of those horrible twists that so fits the book that so wasn't planned, I have to step back and give the characters time to react), but I can't go back.
I learned this with the first novel -- I got bogged down for weeks revising and rewriting one section that simply did not work, and I was pretty much ready at the fiftieth attempt, to just throw the whole damn mess against the wall and start something -- anything -- else, and my husband finally said, "Fix it later." And I thought, Oh, wait, I can do that.
It was very liberating.
I think I know enough now that I could go back and revise -- but I sometimes lose the immediacy of the now of the book if I do, so I tend to do what