Writing process

I began sending my sister/editor a chapter a week. When I sent it off, I would feel wonderful, believing that she would be astounded when black ink turned into gold. She would send back favorable reviews. Instead, what I received was. 

This isn't plausible. That could never happen. The way you set up that scene is odd. This part is confusing. What were you trying to say?

Then began the working and reworking of chapter after chapter. In a nine month time period, I was only on chapter 10. To make matters worse, at that point she mentioned 40 chapters needed to be condensed into 20. I had to start over on page one again. 

And so I did.