My edits and rewrites are as frenetic as my shitty first draft.

For me it's dictated by the individual piece. Some are fairly clear-cut. The book I recently finished drafting felt like a 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzle whose pieces I kept moving around. I wrote that one non-linearly, creating scenes as they came to me, keeping them in different files, and then fitting the files together. It also included scenes that I rewrote until the tone felt right -- which sometimes meant jumping ahead and writing the aftermath first.

I edit and rearrange as I write my rough drafts, reading prior scenes for flow and rearranging paragraphs. My notes are where the real messes happen. They are filled with changes in plans, blind alleys, verbal flowcharts, and ideas thrown around willy-nilly that never make it into the draft.

That is, into *that* draft.

Editing is all over the place for me. Sometimes I do it in the computer as I read. Sometimes I print out a copy and do it on the paper and then enter it in the computer exactly as I had marked it up. Sometimes I read an entire section and discover something amiss and will then revamp entire sections, change POV, rearrange, delete entire chapters, or entirely new characters will show up and demand to be included. There's definitely no control. hahahaha

Sometimes I like editing more than the writing. The writing can be pretty messy and the edits give me a sense of pruning down the thicket.