Successfully Rewriting Existing Scenes When Expanding An Outline
We’ll need a bigger, better palm tree! There are tons of degrees of rewrites: the little tweaks here and there; the nuke-it-from-orbit, scorched-earth policy; and everything in between. The sort of rewrites I’m conducting right now are part of a larger effort to expand the outline of a manuscript, all the way from A to Z. New scenes get inserted, old scenes that no longer fit get removed. There are also plenty of previously written scenes that still fit into…