All the Not Knowing

I'm moving into new territory with my revision. Which is exciting: there's so much I don't know. And horrible and scary: there's so much I don't know.

It's a necessary phase. If you want to create something new to the world, it probably has to be at least partly all new to you, too. You don't want readers to feel that they read this, or something very much like it, already. So you hurl yourself into some kind of abyss, shining lights this way and that. Something sticks, followed by doubt.

And ...