Strange stuff afoot with the work in progress. It's weird reading from the beginning, stuff I haven't looked at in a long time. Like reading something that somebody else wrote. I shake my head at the character name changes I made, apparently suddenly and without warning, thinking what the hell? This happens to me when a new character suddenly shows up, and I fail to type their name into my mind map for whatever book I'm writing at the time.
I don't edit as I'm writing, but I do write pretty cleanly, so I don't see much in terms of technical fixes needed. But keeping minor characters straight and making sure all plot lines are threaded in properly is tricky.
Realizing too that not all the threads will be neatly tied up. This is okay with me. In fact, I like it better when not all threads are neatly tied up in a book, because in life, not all things are quickly or easily, or sometimes ever, resolved. There's room for at least another book in here. This is good. But I'm considering writing it from the point of view of one of the other characters. Talk about challenging. Yikes.
At least I won't be bored. I may tear out my hair, but I won't be bored.
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