[jackokent]

I've been re-drafting 2 for 10 years. My best advise would don't be like me... stop sometime and have the guts to do something with your work other than re-draft.

I do think it's good to have a break from them though. I found printing them out in a nice easy, bookish format and reading them like I would any other novel was realy useful.

I've often heard with first novels that authors waste what is sometimes thier best idea on thier worst writing as they are so inexperienced. When I'd finished my first novel therfore, I set it aside and forgot it for 2 years while I wrote another one. I then went back to the first to start re-drafting after gaining all that experience of writing the second.