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Tuesday, January 28, 2025

Backtracking

I try not to do too much revising while I'm writing the first draft of my books. I have perfectionist tendencies and can tinker forever if I allowed myself to do that. I save the revisions for when the entire book is done.

Almost always.

Except sometimes something in the story will change what I already wrote. If it's small, I keep going. If it's a larger item with implications that reverberate through the story...well, things are different then. I need to go back and revise the parts that are affected.

Guess what happened with Wicked Ambition this week?

Yeah.

After I finish this blog post, I'll be opening up my draft file and revising the earlier chapters with the new information in mind. I'm hoping it won't be a massive amount of work, but it might be because this change has tentacles going back through the entire book. But if things change so much, I have to go back and fix before moving forward again.

Revising, here I come!