balancing act

I finally sat down with my draft on Saturday. This is the magical real YA novel that I've been working on for a few years now (yikes) and the character recently grew from age 13 to age 15, and got a whole lot more interesting back story. Anyhow, I had been taking a break and was feeling a bit daunted by my crazily-highlighted outline, complete with notes to add, fix, move, etc. But once I got over the dread of "ugh, page 1, again!" I got into the swing of things, and it was sort of exciting.

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