I wrote my first children's novel and am in the maddening process of trying to polish it.
It got to the point where it was so bad, I decided to re-write it from scratch.
Now I'm re-writing it a second time and have gone through the first MS and found that I actually like at least half of it. Once I got into a rhythm, it was less tell and more show.
Now what? Do I consolidate the three or just go back to the first because it's easier?
My problem is that I've cut a main character and I've gotten so many new ideas, it's almost a new book. But I can't keep doing this or I'll never finish it. Plus I feel like something was missing from the re-write that was very much there in the first draft.
Does anyone else go through this?
It got to the point where it was so bad, I decided to re-write it from scratch.
Now I'm re-writing it a second time and have gone through the first MS and found that I actually like at least half of it. Once I got into a rhythm, it was less tell and more show.
Now what? Do I consolidate the three or just go back to the first because it's easier?
My problem is that I've cut a main character and I've gotten so many new ideas, it's almost a new book. But I can't keep doing this or I'll never finish it. Plus I feel like something was missing from the re-write that was very much there in the first draft.
Does anyone else go through this?