Thinking of scrapping your novel and rewriting it from scratch? Brute force isn’t enough.

I recently scrappeda polished, praised “finished” draft and completely rewrote it from scratch.I found almost no articles to help with this kind of extensive rewritedespite the fact that it has to be more common than anyone would admit. Surely I am not the first writer to realize the bones of the story were right but they had the skeleton together all wrong many drafts later. To that end, I thought it would be helpful to detail exactly what I did to get to this point, in the order I did it, i...