This Rocky Mountain Bee Plant feels like a symbol of where I’m at with the revisions of my middle grade novel. Some aspects of the story have fully bloomed and won’t change much as I continue revising.
August 7, 2021
Other aspects are still revealing themselves to me. Slowly unfurling their blossoms to become beautiful, integral, and incredibly obvious how-did-I-not-already-know-that components of the whole.
It’s an exciting and gratifying place to be in the process.
Tracy Abell 
I like the comparison between your book and the flower!
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Thank you, Mark. It felt apt.
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I’m having such a hard time getting out of the revision process, myself. I’m on “Final” Version #5 after seven or eight drafts. Nature makes everything look so easy. Maybe because we don’t see the broader adaptations that occur slower overtime.
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I’m sorry you feel bogged down in your process, Melanie. I really, really dislike when that happens. And YES to your analysis of Nature and the adaptations we don’t notice as they slowly occur across a longer timeline. Believe me, my revisions feel sloooow, but they also feel right which helps a lot. Sending you good wishes for your revision process! You can do it! 🙂
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Thank you!
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