...you go back to something from a few years ago with an idea how to make it better, and find it is almost physically painful as you cut a main character out of a story.
...how you had conflated what you had published with what you had written, meaning most of what I was thinking was already in the published story is not.
...when you look how much first draft continuation you wrote back then and see it was a lot.
...when new characters and situations keep you awake as you imagine them through.
Don't go holding your breath, but we'll see. At least I ain't dead.
Cheers,
Clee