More revisions

Between other projects, I am slowly working on revisions, having split my manuscript into two books. (One of those projects is clearing my desk, not an easy task, but I’m making progress.) First up is to rethink the entire story now that the first half has to hang together on its own.

That part is done. I added a new section near the end. It’s an improvement over the part I had struggled with that it replaces, and I think it builds to a stronger ending. And I decided to add another scene in the middle, to spark some life into it (now that the “middle” has been relocated).

Today I spent the morning revising the beginning of my novel. Not the radical start-completely-over-from-scratch revision I did before, but a little bit of change. Sometime after 11am, at about page 12, I realized my change wasn’t going to work. One little change and my villain for book two lost his reason for what he did. Oops.

So, after eating an early lunch and doing a little sewing, I decided I had to scrap the morning’s work and start over. I’m keeping the changes I made to the backstory, which means I still need a little tweaking, but the rest stays the same.