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One of my fondest memories as a child was going to the garage and helping my dad or my uncle work on cars. Mostly I handed him tools or read a book, but even though the hours were long, I really cherish those memories. Revising a book is a bit like ripping out the guts of a car to put them all back together again. You see, I'm working on my BDFN (big damn fantasy novel), which came in at 150K. Most publishers won't accept novels that long, and I'd been told to tighten up the pacing. So, as I was going through, shaving it down to about 128K, I realized at chapter twenty-eight, I had to gut the ending and redo it completely. In car terms, I was yanking the tranny and realigning the ass-end. It's kind of exciting work. I have some distance from the manuscript. So I could look at it, know my heroine could not run away for a THIRD time, and needed to fix. When I took that out, a lot of the things made sense. So, now, I can go back, cut out everything I wanted to cut, smooth over the transitions, and I'll have a much better novel for it. Sometimes in writing you have to make big changes to yield big results. I can't wait to see how this novel ends up and what future it holds.  
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