I've just been redrafting a book, "Stay My Hand" which will go live in 2016 (if everything goes according to plan, that is - there's many a slip 'twixt cup and lip, as they say.) It brought to mind a conversation I had with an old mate (no longer with us) who published FIRST DRAFTS of his work! "I hate revising," he said. "I've written it. Why would I want to write it again? It's hard, revising I don't know what to cut."

I told him I found it easy, the most pleasurable part of the process. "Cut what's shit," I said.

He didn't get it. But he bought the next round, so that was OK.