Today was a better day than yesterday, for a variety of reasons. I'm still finalizing my preparations for rewriting, but I think I made the breakthrough decision that will get me going. Tomorrow's work awaits.

Good to hear, Steve. Breakthroughs are often born out of recurring engagement with the Story. It can also happen that after you bash your head on the proverbial wall, while you're completely not in that head space - driving, taking a walk, shower - BOOM! Here's the big idea. It's a strange thing... writing.

Today's batch of creative juju!

I'm rewriting the zero draft from November. NOW I know why it's called a vomit draft. After I read it I went and vomited. Just kidding. I'm not really sure how to do daily posts about rewriting since my process isn't about getting a certain amount of pages done every day or anything like that. It's very non-linear. I start with the big picture and work my way down from there. Broad to narrow. Dialogue and description are last. No sense rewriting dialogue if the whole scene is going to be cut or changed. The last couple days I've just made sure the story works and the spine is straight. Than I'll work on the individual scenes and than the dialogue. Than the description and a polish. Kind of messy yet structured.

"Messy yet structured", yeah, that sounds about right :) First, I do a clean read-through with a red pen, taking notes on what works or not and what I want to keep/rework/delete. Then I do a first rewrite, focusing mainly on structure/character actions. Every subsequent rewrite, I hone in on more and more details, leaving dialogue/description till last. I don't look at page count either and I always work from one scene to the next, I don't jump around, even when writing. If I don't have a clear picture of a certain scene, I will jot down notes about it before moving on to the next. As long as the words get on the page, right? :)

DW, rewrite is different than zero draft, so I get it, harder to do daily posts about progress. That said, good luck with your personal Re-Write-O-Rama!