I'm still going about the business of re-reading the manuscript. I am very pleased with the first 100 pages. This is not such a surprise because those pages were buffed and polished and submitted to my agent a long time ago. The second hundred pages have not been vetted at all, and are rather rough. I still like them and still like the story, though.
There's one chapter that is particularly hinky and this is the chapter that sort of borrows from my autobiography. You would think that trying to write from experience would provide lots of details, but that chapter is sort of flat. There isn't the same musing that I employ when working in an imaginary world. If I can't get the details to become richer, I may just have to nix that whole subplot. I'm not giving up yet, but those pages really stand out from the rest of what I have written.
In other news, it turns out that I had a single chapter saved TWICE in the master file. There was, of course, that disappointment that comes from not having as many pages as I thought, but structurally it's good news because the repeat is in the first movement of the book that was running a little long.
That's all for today. More tomorrow!
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