This Isn't Bad

I have focused on numbers lately, but I have been doing a lot of good writing as well. I've been keeping a list of questions dating back for a year or more. The questions are pretty much the result of my not having an outline. Have I properly explained this plot point? Is this idea believable? Was this made up word previously defined?

In addition to this draft being a response to my editors comments and my revisions, I'm also working hard to answer all those outstanding questions. Lately, as I've entered the thick of the story, I'm crossing off a lot of the questions and the GIANT is shaping up quite well. The plot flows and has really become intricate.

There's substance to the story and some mystery, and not the fake mystery the story had before. When I originally wrote the GIANT, I had a rough idea of the plot tucked neatly away in my head and no idea what the ending was going to be. I remember the gleeful day when I told my wife that I knew how the book was going to end (I have since changed the ending). Not knowing what was going to happen, I inserted a lot of false mystery that did nothing but confuse the reader - as my editor pointed out to me. I groaned many times reading through my work and wrote more than one "where are you going with this?" in the margins. If I cannot answer that question now, I cut out the false mystery.