Revisions, Joy.

And that pretty much sums up my opinion on revisions. 

No I'm just kidding I just really loved that picture. But pretty much my feelings on revisions still stand on them being important, but never fun. ESPECIALLY with stories. I tend to write a lot so to go back and make a bunch of changes is quite annoying, although it does benefit the story. I actually found the quote Professor Quinlan posted, "Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." by Anton Chekhov, interesting because it's so relevant to how most people write their stories. Usually when I revise someone else's work, I find that they are telling the plot without actually giving the story life, action, or conflict and the characters aren't very developed yet. I do this 100% of the time when I'm working on my first draft because I already have the story, especially the ending for some odd reason, in my head and I just want to get it down in writing and see where it leads me. I don't actually take the time to think of the order of things or who my characters are, what they would do and how I want things to go about. It isn't until I have my work revised that I actually create well developed characters, and tangible scenes. For example, the story I'm working on right now In the Trees, when I first wrote it it sounded like "Couple just got married and are on their way to their honeymoon spot in the Poconoes. They take a wrong turn that leads them into a slaughterhouse trail..." etc. But upon my revision, I actually created scenes, emotions, characters, back stories to my characters, and all that good stuff.