This is so much harder than I remember

Editing.  It's one thing when I'm tearing a short story to bits, it's a whole other ball of wax when it comes to facing up editing a novel, even a novel that's only 45k words.

I think I did the whole giving-birth-blurred-memory thing, because I do not remember having this much trouble when I started editing The Novel.  I feel like I had a plan, I went chapter-by-chapter, I tackled the new ending with something resembling poise, and now I'm staring at the ms for Skywatch going, ". . . where do I start?"

( On the other hand )

This is an early indication to me that this book is going to need a lot more outside input than The Novel did, especially since I didn't catch on to the setting issue until my second read-through.