Uh-oh.

Well, it's been BAD. I have let life allow me to sidetrack my book, and it's been getting dusty now for something like a month. But recently (over the last week or so), new things have been percolating so it's not ALL LOST. Yet.

I got some feedback from G regarding Chapters 5-7 and basically... things need some rewriting. While my sister loved what I'd done, he felt it was pretty talky and I am really going overboard with the word "hybrid". I've given it some thought and I do think it couldn't hurt to start over from one particular point in Chapter 5. I wrote a few pages of this new scene (Karen's husband comes lookin' for Zachary after he gets a little too close to his wife) a week or so ago, and I like where it's going. A lot more action. More drama and interest. More complications in his life, less mopey sit-around-and-talk-about-everything. I have this cool plan for how he will find out about Zoe, and it's a total 180 from what I'd already written for chapters 6 & 7. Why would Dr. B and Bridget sit him down and tell him all about Zoe and all of that? It doesn't add up, the more I think of it, and isn't consistent with how those characters FEEL about Zachary in this new version of the book. It was basically me slipping into "the old book" territory, kind of by accident.

Now that things in my personal life are calming down again, I will be able to focus again and get back to work. It's been a TOUGH summer so far. I've hated it. But things are looking up and like the infamous Stella, I'm getting my groove back.

Wow, did I just type that? Whew, boy...someone needs to practice, I don't know, WRITING again!