This week has gone pretty well. I didn’t have a lot of writing days, but I have been thinking through some things that are going to help.
The draft is just over 12k now and I am in a section of the story that is being transferred and reworked rather than rewritten entirely.
A funny thing I have noticed about this draft is that I am putting back a lot of things that I took out in previous drafts. I am seeing now that while I recognized that something wasn’t working at particular points, I misjudged what it was that wasn’t working. I seem to have removed several elements that were not executed well, but when done well, was correct to the story and characters. So I find I am reworking and reinserting several scenes and threads that I had clipped, recognizing that it didn’t work, but not understanding the why.
I am really excited about the next section that I plan to rewrite. It doesn’t involve something I removed, but I am weaving in an idea I had for the second book. It fixes a problem I had in the world building and plays to what appears to be one of the strengths of the story. And it’s just going to be a blast to write it.
A little snippet from this week’s work (brief as this is a really sad section of story):
She was vaguely aware of movement and the hum of electricity in the air, but her world had shrunk to shadows and those sightless green eyes.
Thanks for reading!
Be blessed.
Michelle R Bowen
