Second Draft

The second draft is more revision than writing, relying heavily on the inner editor rather than on the Muse.

But.

For writers like me, who write short first drafts and then expand the book during revision, there's still a fair amount of subconscious-dredging, Muse-baiting, and creative word-hunting in the second draft.  And a fair amount of gazing out the window.  (What, you didn't know that great ideas are just hanging from the branches of the birch that stands beside my house?)

And so the seco...