POV

The other day, I wrote a few pages. And when I looked at them, they struck me as mediocre. They weren’tbad, mind you. They got the job done, they got my protagonist where she needed to go. But they didn’t sparkle, they didn’t fizz, and when I read them I didn’t hear the little voice that says, Hey, boss, that’s just about perfect.” They were just . . . adequate. Now if the pages werebad,I could have thrown them out and rewritten them, or performed some major corrective surgery and made them b...