On revision.

“Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”
~E.L. Doctorow

If writing the first draft of a novel is like driving a car at night in the fog then writing the second draft is like traveling that same road in the daylight. But this time, you’re on a Harley, it’s pouring rain and then maybe hailing and you forgot your helmet, the road is washed out in places, there’s a cemetery on your left and a nuclear power plant on your right, and various unidentifiable creatures keep leaping out of the brush.

At least, that’s what it felt like at 5:00 this morning.