It’s challenging at this fledgling state of my writing career to move forward, simply because there are so many paths I could be moving forward on. I started this week beginning to go in depth with my main characters, with the help of strategies learned in Getting Into Character. I got somewhere with my main character, who I still don’t totally gel with, so that was good.

Then a writing buddy requested a new version of my novel, because I was bragging how I’d finally analysed the thing into a sequence that worked without overdoing the flashbacks. She liked the story but had a hard time following my meanderings in the trousers of time. ( Terry Pratchett reference. I can’t help it.) I’ve been wanting to do a rewrite to show my honey (he knows the ideas, but hasn’t read it all) so this seemed like confirmation that I should go ahead with an actual second draft.

New course set, onward we go. Second draft now in progress. Same story, less parts that suck.