Writing, and rewriting, and rewriting, and ...

Okay, it's sunday evening and I haven't been on here for a couple of days. I have a really good excuse though - I've been revising. In fact, I have more or less rewritten chapters 2 through 6 of "Red" (and deleted the original chapter 2, saving a few good passages for inclusion later.)

I have added a lot more dialog and put in a lot more "show" (vice "tell.")

I have realized that my writing has gotten sloppy over the years. I can see when reading where what is down was written a long time ago (like when I was taking creative writing at college) and what was written later, in a push to "finish" the manuscript.

Big mistake there - thinking it was finished.

Reading it after others have made comments - keeping their comments in mind while reading - really helped me see where there were problems.

So, I have spent the last couple of days working on making fixes.

And now, the edited chapters (new chapters 2 through 6) have been uploaded to authonomy and I am hoping that someone who read the originals will reread and let me know if I fixed some of the problems, or if I only made them worse.

I mean, I think I made them better; but, I think I'm a bit too close to the project to really tell.

Guess it's time to check into revising and editing (and re-editing) advice.

Anyone have any suggestions?