When Good isn’t Good Enough

I wrote a chapter today. It’s a part of a science fantasy novel that is a huge undertaking. And while I’ve been plotting it out for a long while now, I’ve never had a first chapter that I liked. This was the first chapter (with my newest outline) and I really liked it.

And then I read it again.

It was missing something. Something important. Something that, without it, made the story not good