I posted a while back, talking about overcoming a difficult scene, only now I just got over another difficult scene and finally broke into clear waters. I am on page 151 of my second draft, and I still have a lot of ground to cover. In my second draft, I have had to change two major events in my plot, only to find I like it much better this way. I came up with what I consider better answers to the questions it left me asking after finishing my first draft. While I struggle with the character relationships, simply because I know how they end up liking or disliking each other by the end of the book, I often find myself changing things where they act as if they’ve known each other for a long time, whereas I’m still early in the story and they haven’t developed the relationships they have now.

But it’s keeping me on my toes, that and I’ve changed(added) a lot of scenery and really spent time filling out my book, making sense of scenes that left me with questions, making clear scenes that had no structure or real importance to the reader. As the author, I felt they had importance, but a reader would not see it as I have(and do). Overall, I’ve been impressed at the radical change in my writing and description. I touched briefly on a few things before, and I’ve caught myself bringing into focus more minute details of the ongoing around the characters, placing the characters more into the scene, as before, I painted a picture, then let the actors have free reign of the entire plot, not bothering to have them interact with the ‘props’.

I took part in the writers meeting at Kenya’s house, met some great people and have a whole new excitement for writing, and completing my manuscript for submission. I feel almost 100% about my work so far, although I need to make a few changes as I have recently discovered some things about my plot. All that’s lacking is proper sentence structure, and I’m not sure how to string together actions with dialogue. After I get that figured out and probably a few other things, watch out world, do I have a story to tell.

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