Yes, there is a wrong time for insight

That time is "48 hours before your final final final revisions are due to your editor, who will then be sending it on to copyedit."

I've been working on these revisions for about a month now -- she didn't ask for many changes, and I would have gotten the manuscript back to her before now if I hadn't been laid flat by the flu a couple weeks ago. I've been very happy with her suggestions and with the other alterations I've made so far; I feel like the book is getting much tighter.

However, this evening, I detected a slow patch in the second half. It's not long or fatal or anything, but I didn't really get it on any of my earlier drafts, mostly b/c that sequence was so tough to write that, once it came out "right" (all necessary info given, in character, in a clear setting) I felt like it was great. But it's not great or maybe even good; it's just better than it was. I think I can improve it. I hope.

So, can I rewrite about 2000 words of a 73K novel without freaking out my editor? And before Friday morning? I am about to find out.

Thanks for putting it in perspective, John

ccarver30 said:

Log off and go for it!!

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LOL -- trust me, I will as soon as I get home!

Just to update: I kept working, and made things better, but realized that to really nail it, I'd need a little more time. So I asked the editor for one more weekend, so that I would hand the manuscript in on Monday instead of tomorrow, and she was absolutely fine with it. In the grand scheme of things, a three-day extension is apparently not that big a deal, especially as we have been bang on schedule so far.

Now I don't have to lose sleep -- and, more importantly, I can be sure that I've got the redrafted passages where they need to be.