If I have to think about it, I spent too much time revising my first novel. I did the set it aside thing… more than once… and I just kept going. In hindsight, what I would have done is this: I would have set it aside and started another novel.

Which is actually one of the questions that fluttered through my mind back then. How long do you set it aside before revising? Well, every reference I could find talked about it in terms of “at least a month” or a year. Or thirty six-days, twelve hours, nine minutes and forty two seconds. In terms of time.

I’m  not sure if I could have left it alone for long enough to write another one, back then. (And revising that book was equally impossible.) I was still in awe of the fact that I had written a whole book. But that’s the answer I needed.

Go write another book. Then, come back.