Thank you for this much needed encouragement. I've taken a couple of days off revision to write the beginning of a new story and to watch movies last night. I think I'll be able to approach this with a fresh attitude next.

I definitely never delete scenes without having them backed up. In fact, I have digital copies of the past three drafts of this novel, I believe, so none of those scenes are irretrievably lost.

Some of those scenes, though, I promise, are entirely pointless. There is a little bit of character development, but that's easily moved into other scenes that have more purpose plot-wise. I'm not trying to write a literary novel here. *G* It's urban fantasy. That needs action. :)

<3 You are awesome.