On Mon, 2004-06-28 at 09:54, Howard Brazee wrote: > I'm curious: > > > Steve - how often and extensively do you re-read your books when you are > preparing for or writing a sequel? Not as often as I should. But rereading them can be quite painful for me. On the other hand, it can also be fun. I'm doing it now, and discovering that YENDI doesn't suck as much as I thought it did. The voice, at any rate, is just where it should be for the most part. > Do you take notes about pieces that > you figure are important to this book, or are you just re-creating the > environment you want to be in while writing the new book? I sometimes take notes as I things pop up that make me go, "Hey, that's right. I did that. I could play with that," or, "Hmmm...I'd forgotten I said that; how am I going to get out of THIS one?"