Revisions are NOT fun.

Surprised? Of course you’re not. I never expected them to be fun, but boy did I welcome them.

Seriously -a book can ONLY become better with revisions. Editor input is golden, thats what, IMO, takes a story from good to great (okay, so I’m hoping for great ). So when I received my revision letter, I was thrilled. Really. I could see how much better the story would be just reading the suggestions.

So I started revising. And it was smooth and easy and flowed like soft butter. It was so smooth… it scared me. Revisions aren’t supposed to be easy. They are supposed to be intense and tough and hard - like bootcamp or something (at least, they are in my mind).

Then I hit the last dozen or so revision suggestions (the last 100 pages of the ms) and OMG there it was. That intense, tough and hard stuff. The huge, go back and change all the rest of the ms revisions. The rewrite the last 75 pages completely revisions.

And the changes? They took my story from something I was very pleased with, proud of, to something I’m going OMG wow over. It will be deeper, stronger, tighter.

I’m not done yet - I just finished sweating through a long phone call with my CP over the end of the story. Its all changing. Its major rewrites. Even knowing what I “think” I should do… will it be enough? Will it be deep enough?

If it is… its gonna rock.