Starting Over from Scratch

I've had a couple of questions about revisions, so I thought I'd share my revision process for a problem that was really getting on my nerves. (Boring post here! Most of us don't really like revision.)

At the end of October I was revising the latest Myrtle Clover (my personal revisions, not the editor's.) I thought the beginning was 'okay.' But the more I looked at it, the more it really started bothering me.

I tried approaching it from a couple of different directions. I switched one...