So, in the end, I stepped away from the finished draft for a week and have started to revise again. Revision is hard, adding, cutting, rethinking. And I've been taking notes during the writing of things I was sure I was going to revise anyway. AND I revise as I write anyway, so my revisions are actually less than if I would not revise at all. But I've never been able to simply write without revising, so I guess that's a plus.
But here's my surprise, even as I'm completely living in one universe, what happens in my dreams? A new world, new characters enter it so insitently that I had to wake up this morning and begin writing about them too! I'm not sure I'm ready to write the whole story out now, so I took a new notebook just fr it and began writing down those snatches of conversation I witnessed in my dreams and outlining where I think this story wants to go (though I'm sure it'll change as I'm actually writing it). I guess it's true, there more you write, the more you'll want to write. I'm actually thinking maybe I'll try this story for NaNoWriMo afterall. All the possibilities.
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