-15: Progress Report

I took the first third of the manuscript to one of my early readers. I usually like to wait until I have a full first draft but time is of the essence and I need advice. Ideas are swirling, but disordered. It’s sort of like the flood; ideas are pushing past the confines of the structure and spreading out in all directions. The direction of flow is obscured and I need a compass. Or a paddle.

My reader tells me what I was expecting. Really, I knew all along what was wrong but was simply hoping otherwise. Just like the potential of the blank screen on Day One, there is always hope that the first readers will be overwhelmed, that they will see your words as molten gold.

Who am I kidding? I’m looking at a major overhaul.