Re-writing

Sue Bolich and Jefferson Carter have covered the subject as well as most writing books.The only thing I might add is that I am reading now, chapter by chapter, a novel to my wife. The writing is supposed to be humorous. Chapter one and two passed the test. She laughed. Chapter three failed miserably. I've read and reread the damned novel too many times already and never did I miss the lack of humor in chapter three. But my wife did. And while I was reading it to her I realized it wasn't funny at all because the things that made it funny were still in my mind, not on the paper. I've rewritten it and hope I've turned it into the ha ha I thought it was in the first place.