Revisions are a good thing. They make your writing better. They make the story better. They make everything better. That's why a writer should never limit his/her revisions. The more you revise, the better a book becomes. Still, there does come the time when you just have to say enough. Has that time come yet for Killer Eyes? Just about. I'm glad I didn't stop yet though. As recently as last night my revisions made the writing better. I'm talking specifically about the prose.
But in those revisions, you also get a better story. You also catch typos and even errors in continuity. So much is improved with revisions, that I would say the revision stage is an absolute necessity. And very thorough revisions, too. Multiple thorough revisions. Different authors go about it in different ways. Some make a pass through a manuscript focusing on typos, and another pass focusing on prose, and another pass focusing on dialogue, etc.
But me? I focus on everything in every pass. And why not? If I find a paragraph that can be written better, why would I not rewrite it right then? Why would I say, 'well, this is the pass that I'm focusing on typos, so since this poorly written paragraph has no typos, I'm not going to revise it just yet. I'll wait for the pass that's focused on prose.'
No. If it needs to be fixed, no matter what the problem, I fix it. Even if it's not a problem. Killer Eyes is so close to being done, I just don't want to be too quick on that trigger. I said I'd submit it this week. Now, I'm looking at next week. Well, maybe. Probably. Hopefully. I think so? Yeah.
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