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Workin' On It Wednesday #30 -- Revision is a Sweater

I'm in the midst of some major revisions on The Book at the moment, and let me tell you, there is nothing more amazing than going back through something you wrote and seeing how it all hangs together. Seriously, there are times when I'm looking at The Book and thinking to myself "I cannot believe that I, Jay, put this together!" Of course, then you change one teeny thing and BAM! the whole structure falls apart. Revision, my friends, is like a sweater. Pull on one thread and a whole bunch of other stuff unravels and the next thing you know a sleeve falls off and now you don't have a sweater, but an asymmetrical sweater vest, which who wants that, you know? No one, that's who. Because this is a major revision, I'm doing it on paper. I know it's ridiculously old school of me to have printed out all 265 pages of my manuscript and be marking it up by hand, but I find it much faster than doing revisions on computer for two reasons: 1. when you're