I've been attempting for some time to rewrite a story that I originally started in college, then mostly lost the track of in its later stages. Since then, I wrote a sequel, then went back and utterly revised a fundamental aspect of the original story. I know none of this is particularly interesting, but I do have a point: when committing a revision of this magnitude, check your assumptions. Best in fact to check your assumptions about what you've written at the door.

In this case, in the original draft, the opening section focused greatly around a rather obstinate character whose sole purpose seems to be to cause me problems during the writing process. Draft two, this is no longer the case, due to the aforementioned major change and how it affect the relationships between the major characters. However, I've just now realized that I've been stubbornly trying to rewrite the damn thing like he was still the central character. There are entire scenes I no longer need, but that I've been trying to rework with ever growing frustration.

This has now ceased. Yay me. Actually, I don't really care about this story per se, but I have to get through it so I can go on to its natural sequel, and from there to the story I actually want to write. I'm bored of college age characters, I want to get cracking on proper adults (who, after all, have some relevancy to my life), but first I want to establish their "childhoods."

Gah. Hopefully I won't have nearly so many problems when I finally finish revising my first story. It has in some ways just a major change, two characters are going to be combined into one, but since the two characters occupy the same mental territory anyway, I don