I’m currently in the process of revising the first book in the Lost Dogs series. For much of the book I’m just cleaning up the prose, fixing mistakes, and making minor content changes. However, the sixth chapter was just too dull and needed to be rewritten from scratch. I knew that when I started this, and now that I’m very nearly done, the sixth chapter has been split into two, and also taken over half of what is now the eighth chapter.

The revisions aren’t necessarily complete, and I still...