Nonlinear.

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Troubling development tonight in my writing. Well, maybe not troubling, but interesting.

Anyone who's ever sat and watched me write has remarked on it --

I don't go back and revise much. Oh, sure, I'll go back and change a word while I'm writing, maybe rearrange a sentence a little, but for the most part, I just go flat-out from left to right, typing it out as if I'm just transcribing something I have memorized. And then that's it -- I'm done. My first draft is, most often, my final draft.

But tonight's chapter has found me going back and reorganizing whole paragraphs, reordering the beats of a scene. Or going back and realizing that I forgot a whole section of dialogue that needs to be there for the motivations to make sense, to set up what happens later. Retrograde glacial movements. It's not like me and I don't get it.

I'm worried I may be writing too fast, now, trying to get it all down before my self-imposed Xmas deadline. But at least I'm catching the pieces I'm dropping on the ground. So far.