Well, I am truly back underway with my mystery novel, THIRTY MINUTES OR LESS. I’ve rewritten the first lost chapter and re-imagined it so thoroughly that instead of three ultra-short chapters, I’ve combined those aspects of the short into one somewhat longer, but still not too long, chapter.
This sort of re-imagining is exactly what I was hoping to accomplish in taking on the novel again; I knew if I tried to recreate what I’d lost, it would only read and feel like a pale imitation of the first draft, at least to me. Now I can feel safe to say that this is turning out more like tossing out a bad draft and starting over. That’s a good thing.
And as they always say, the worst day writing is still better than the best day selling car insurance.
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