I just finished the last dissertation-chapter I needed to revise for the book. I now get to write my two final chapters "from scratch." While the idea of researching, reading, writing, and revising two whole chapters in six months is a bit daunting, I'm also feeling excited. No longer do I have to reshape the old to fit the new. No longer do I have to relive the dissertation days of yore. I get to write it as I want it from the start.
Quite freeing.