m. c. de marco: To invent new life and new civilizations...

Holly Lisle’s One-Pass Manuscript Revision: From First Draft to Last in One Cycle is aimed at those who revise too much:

And let’s debunk one bit of writer myth while we’re here: Doing a seventeenth revision on a project does not make a writer an artist or move him above the writer hoi polloi any more than dressing entirely in black or wearing tweed jackets with leather elbow patches or big, black drover coats.

I’d rather write a whole new novel than revise an old one, so I also found it inspiring. Now all I need is that drover coat…