“I enjoy getting to know the characters through the revision process.  I’ll start with a basic idea of who the characters are and I’ll do a plot outline, but by the time the rough draft is finished, the characters and I have gotten past the get-acquainted stage and I start to figure out what they’re really about. The initial writing phase is hard, slow work for me; revision, on the other hand, is fun.”

Elaine Cunningham
From Something New with the Dragon
Flamesrising.com
September 2008