This is Your Brain on Revisions

One of the tricky parts of writing an ongoing series is keeping track of which characters know what.  This is further complicated by rewriting, and the revision process.  During revisions I may cut entire scenes wherein a character is told something important, or I may add a scene to reveal a secret to a character, or I might change which character heard the secret and how they found out.

So when my editor asks me things in revisions such as…(paraphrase) "I thought this character didn't know a...