Dubious Greif Book Proposal sent

Yesterday, two weeks following the Willamette Writers Conference, I sent off my book proposal as requested. Now I wait for a response from the publisher as I revise the manuscript. I remember a colleague in graduate school saying that 90% of writing is rewriting. So true. Most non-writers fail to realize that once you've written your "book" you begin the real writing; revising, tightening, polishing, and then doing it all again and again. New writing projects help keep the repetitive nature of constant revisions from dulling my mind. What keeps me writing is the joy of it all.