As I retrofit this character

Revision is not easy for me. A draft has a shape in my mind. I have to unbuild a part of that shape, if I'm to replace it -- excise it thoroughly enough the new crenellation doesn't look like a ghost of the old cornice. This, while making sure the crenellation is actually, yanno, good and the seams where it joins the roofline are cleanly spackled over. And, oh yeah, making sure the shingles fit around the new bit, and the window treatments no longer match the old shape.

All of which takes me a couple days of slowly steeping my brain with the intended new architecture. No, steep is too mild. Stewing in it, and not on the back burner. As a rule of thumb, it takes me at least twice as long to revise a story as I think it should.

Rewriting is easier -- if nowhere as much fun.

( ObWritingUpdate )

---L.