I’ve started the 3rd draft of Blue Crystal today.
I haven’t finished my plot-scrub. I’ve made some changes, questioned some motives, filled in several characters, but the detailed chapter-by-chapter plot lies incomplete on my notebook. I think it’s time to admit that I’m not much of a plotter. Which isn’t to say that I won’t be using all the ideas that I did come up with for those chapters.
I’m resetting the word count bar. I’m also putting up the first five hundred words in my excerpt page. Go take a look– I think this draft is already much better than the last.
tales of a fantasy scribbler 
From what I remember of the second draft, it does look better. A lot more balanced, and with a bit more of an edge to it.