Rewriting = heart transplant... OR DOES IT?!

[naomi_jay]

 OMG, you guys. You guys, OMG. Go and buy A Rush of Wings by Adrian Phoenix. Go now. Go right now. Seriously, when have I ever lead you astray? You go buy it, I'll wait here.

Okay, you're back? You got a copy? Good. Moving on. Yesterday I cut almost a chapter and half out of Wild, which was painful. Hopefully what I replaced it with is good and adds to my "spice up the plot" quota. I'm not sure yet. It's like I'm halfway through conducting a major operation and I've had to stop because I can't remember if I'm taking out the heart or the liver. I do think a lot of what I'm cutting out is unnecessary waffle (or bad cholesterol, if you will), but it's quite scary to think I might be replacing it all with even more unnecessary waffle. Let's look at the evidence:

Chapters rewritten: 10. Technically it's twelve, but I cut one chapter altogether and merged two more into one.
Menacing encounters with werewolves: 3
Number of times Lizzie has resolved to quit drugs/break up with Harris and failed to do so: Countless.
Sinister predictions of Doom from strangers: 2
References to teenagers being killed by clowns: 1

Comments

[yume-kokoro.livejournal.com]

Oh wow - read chapter one of recc'ed book. Liking it.

And kudos to you, Writer - doing writerly things.
Say, what exactly do you have against References to teenagers being killed by clowns anyway?

[naomi-jay.livejournal.com]

I'm actually trying to work more into my work. It'll be like literary subliminal messaging, until whole generations of readers are terrified of clowns but they don't know why.