225 Typed pages in and ACK!

I just reread the 225 pages I've written so far of this new novel (while the previously written one cools its heels on the dining room table...poor thing!) and I am on the fence as to whether or not to scrap the whole thing and start over, or just do a major overhaul of what's here with the hope of it all making sense in the end. Kelly says, just finish it. She wants to know what's going to happen as it's almost finished. I'm wanting to make it darker. I have three ordinary yet evil objects suggested by people who responded to the request for input. They'll get signed copies when its published for their inspiring ideas, but I think I have to go with what got worked into the story- the under study has taken over the leading role, in this case. But I'll use the objects suggested by responders in the novel elsewhere, and credit their contributions in the acknowledgments.

I guess I'll finish this version before starting version 2. I think I wrote four versions of Talon:An Intimate Familiarity before I was happy with it...although all of the different versions had their merits. It also reminds me of the thirty or so stories I let Remy and Lissa ramble around in while working out their story for last year's NANO novel, Life Skills. Sometimes you just have to bear with the characters while they get themselves sorted out!