just…keep…revising

Yesterday I was thinking about boredom.

For the last couple days I've been revising each scene in my current draft, slowly and carefully, rewriting as I went. But then yesterday I found that I was breezing by the scenes quickly, not taking the time to revise or even to read them carefully. I was bored with these scenes. But was I bored because I've read these scenes a million times, or was it a sign of a deeper problem?

Breezing through the scenes was my way of avoiding the problem. Upon...