As I grew as a writer, I knew I wanted more–the story needed more. At the time I was simply glad I had figured out enough things happening to make an actual book. When I was writing Tattered Heart (the first time) the plot meandered out of my mind and onto the page without purpose and without tension. I loved the characters and the story, but I wanted to make it better. I loved the performances from my actors but really started to notice that the storytelling wasn’t exactly what I wanted it to be. I listened to the story over and over and over again (so many times).
This was about the time I was editing the Tattered Heart audiobook. Without any of the lessons learned through the hard road of writing book after book after book. Because all of our first works are… well our first works. The idea of her redraft excited me, this possibility that you could change a story. She even walked through a scene to show how she improved the and brought what she’d learned through the years to that early work. Not rewrote it in that she changed the story or the characters, but that she wrote the story better.
In the forward to Shadow Magic she talked about how it was one of her first books and she rewrote it for the new edition. Years ago, I mean YEARS ago, I bought a compilation of The Lyra Novels by Patricia Wrede. (There’s a Short Version you can skip down to, if you don’t want to read all this) I have (sort of) rewritten Tattered Heart. So, I have done the unexpected, the unconventional, perhaps the unwise but it’s done regardless.
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