Anomander Rake and Point of View

My very first draft of Gardens of the Moon stalled after about three pages.  I spent ten minutes re-reading what I’d written to that point, and then I hit the delete button.  Not a typical start for me.  By this point I’d done an undergraduate degree in Creative Writing at the University of Victoria and a Master’s at the University of Iowa.  I’d found a publisher for my first collection of short stories and I’d received a major Canada Council grant.  Normally, I started on page one and just k...