I’ve been in revision mode for a couple of months, now, and while I don’t really mind revisions, it’s not the same as writing the story in the first place. The creative juices just don’t flow quite the same way.
Oddly enough, starting a different revision has got the juices flowing again. That’s probably because the revisions to DREAMER’S ROSE amount almost to a rewrite–which means a fair amount of new material. The chapter I’m currently in will be almost all new. And ideas, snatches of dialog, bits of plot are swimming in my head just like I was laying out a whole new book. I sometimes have to stop what I’m doing to jot down an idea for further along in the chapter or in the story.
This is the really fun part of writing. Discovering new things that happen to your characters.
Meredith Mansfield, Author 
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