I think in practice the edits and the redraft from scratch are going to wind up being very close to the same thing and the same amount of work. If it helps you psychologically to approach it one chapter and one scene at a time, then go for it.
The same thing is pretty much what did in the dragons story for me. I wrote it slowly, per 2YN schedule, instead of diving in the way I usually do, so it migrated over the course of a year and a half, and the ending no longer matches the beginning in style or content or approach. It's fixable, I'm sure, but I'm just not sure how. It's like three different stories smooshed together -- siamese triplets that need surgical separation :p
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Date: 2009-09-16 02:28 pm (UTC)I think in practice the edits and the redraft from scratch are going to wind up being very close to the same thing and the same amount of work. If it helps you psychologically to approach it one chapter and one scene at a time, then go for it.
The same thing is pretty much what did in the dragons story for me. I wrote it slowly, per 2YN schedule, instead of diving in the way I usually do, so it migrated over the course of a year and a half, and the ending no longer matches the beginning in style or content or approach. It's fixable, I'm sure, but I'm just not sure how. It's like three different stories smooshed together -- siamese triplets that need surgical separation :p