Remodel an Existing Manuscript or Build from Scratch?
a writer's conundrum
I have a big idea for my next novel. Now, for the execution. Do I pull out one of my drawer efforts and reverse engineer this big idea into existing scaffolding, or do I begin afresh, using nothing from a previous draft? Ready for a visual correlative? This mid-century fellow was once a dream home, but it’s fallen on hard times. It’s a cornerstone house…