Revision

Revision, as I have learned, is the art of taking something that's already perfectly fine in the first place and completely destroying it in the hopes that doing so will somehow make it better.

For example:
As I have said about 15,000 times before, I am in the process of writing a series of fairy-tale stories. The first one was finished in November of 2008, and I just started my ninth. The problem is, however, that I went back and re-read the four original stories. And since then, all I've been doing is going back to rewrite those. I started my rewrite of Snow White this week. My original Snow White I did in about two weeks, and I wrote the whole ending in about five minutes.

Let's just say if I had to pick a "Worst Story I Have Ever Written", that would be it.

This week, I also finished my rough draft of Rumplestiltskin, which I started work on in November. (NOVEMBER!!! NOVEMBER!!! NOVEMBER!!!) Admittedly, there was an incident in which I accidentally deleted all nine pages of my original draft, and then I took about a two-month hiatus to finish Rapunzel, but still!!! I've been working on this one story for nearly six months, and I still have to go back and revise!!! What's worse, I don't even really even like this story!!!

So, hopefully, Rumplestiltskin will be ready for reading by the time I leave for vacation July 24th. And if not, well, maybe I should take up a new hobby. Like knitting.