Why can't I just write a book right the first time?

I'm going through and adding false leads and red herrings, but the problem I'm running into is, EVERY scene has to be revised or the reader will easily know that my "false suspect" is false.  It would almost have been easier to start over and write this book from the ground up.  But, no, I got through--what, 55 pages today?  Of course I still have to go back and insert stuff, but maybe once I get the structure nailed down, filling in the scenes correctly won't be so horrible.

You'd think all the years I've been writing I would have encountered this sort of problem, but this is all new to me.  It's overwhelming, kinda fun and scary and horrible all at the same time.  Definitely a challenge.

I walked to the Post office and the dollar store today to mail off a M-P order and buy birdseed, respectively.  Oh, and I've been receiving interesting things in the mail lately--like royalty checks!  Thank God for UNDER DEEPEST COVER, because it's still paying out.  And some of my very old Desires, like from the early '90s, are still paying out.  Royalties are like "found money" because I never count on them.  You just can't, because sometimes they're just nonexistant.  I may still have a check coming from my agent.  Or not.

I also received my Rita scores, and I found it interestig that one of the score sheets was for A SECOND CHANCE, which was supposedly disqualified, yet I haven't received a scoresheet for one of the other books.  I wonder which book was actually judged?  My books scored pretty low this year.  I only had one in the top 25%, AN HONORABLE MAN.  Ah, well.

Thanks for visiting,

Kara