Would Rather Be Losing Weight…

I'm not bemoaning this choice. My instincts are telling me I made a wrong turn in my book and they're good enough instincts that I feel I need to trust them. But cutting off 10,000 words to make a novel read better is a lot like looking at your bank account after you've made your house and car payment.

Not soul-crushing but ever so slightly depressing. If I'm losing 10k of anything, couldn't it be grams? (Incidentally, 10k grams is exactly what I need to lose, lol)

So, as I probably should have explained, I have sliced off 10k from the six chapters I have finished of "Deceiving The Protector". The start was dragging, which makes me think it was stuff I had to get worked through in my head to tell the story, but not something the reader needs to follow me in. In fact, there was stuff there that was going to drive a reader batty, I think.

So now, it's going to start with the couple meeting and you'll get to see the heroine as he does, uncover the mystery as he does. I very, VERY much like this approach.

Wish me luck, folks. We're heading into Nano and some serious writing MUST be achieved to make it up.

Dee