Sometimes My Job Is Kind of Weird...

I finally finished my massive rewrite of the contemporary fantasy I've been working on.  It was a tremendous amount of work, deeply wrenching at times, and deeply satisfying at others.  In a way I was taking an old book and grafting a new book onto it.  

I let the manuscript sit for a little over a week, and now I'm polishing a bit.  And sometimes when I polish, I read the book aloud.   Why?  Because it's often the best way for me to experience the book, to check it for awkward wording, for ov...