So much fun it can hardly be legal

Making excellent Book In A Week progress. I don’t actually expect to complete a book, but I set my goals low enough to be reachable and am exceeding them. Book In A Month fits my pace much better. Anyway, I finally found the beginning of this project and am writing away at it. I never seem to be able to write from chapter one to the end in order. I start with some scenes and then from there I figure out what has to come before, how it has to end and what has to tie it together. Writing a book is so much fun it can hardly be legal. I know, there are all those people out there who talk about opening up a vein and angst angst angst, but really, for me not writing is what’s hard. Writing is easy.

Revision can be pretty painful and frustrating, but only because I can be very slow to figure out what the real problem is and how to fix it. My real goal in reading Maass is to figure out how to speed up the revision process and take the pain out of it, not to change my writing process. I’ve gotten tired of rereading the same section repeatedly, muttering, “I dunno, it feels squishy. I need to punch it up. But what’s missing?”