Revision can be fun. No, really.

Revising a work of fiction is pure agony. This is one of the main tenets of the writer credo (or maybe just a huge meme among writers.) And yeah, it definitely sucks a lot of the time.

But I'm in the middle of revising my next adult novel, which I've vowed to deliver in June -- wish me luck! -- and I found that revision can actually be kind of exhilarating at times. Because instead of thinking of the revision process as fixing my garbage draft, I've started to think of it as unwrapping a series ...