Hello, gentle readers! Hope you are all well and staying safe!
Okay, so this happened.
My beta readers returned their copies of
The Maverick and Miss Miller. Some suggestions were small and easily
fixed. Some were a little bigger, but that’s to be expected. When you’re so
close to a story, you don’t see the plot holes or the fact that you changed a
horse’s gender from one to the other then back again. And one change/suggestion
was pretty drastic, but doable.
So, I’m going along and I’m making my
changes and what smacks me in the face? The fact that the last six chapters
need to be…well, beyond just fixed, but ripped out entirely. Did that hurt? Oh,
you bet! Cutting almost five thousand words in never easy (simply because
getting those words is difficult…sometimes, I have to pull them kicking and
screaming from my brain…hmmm, maybe I should have listened…maybe that was the
reason they weren’t coming easily…because they weren’t right).
The new stuff is better (I hope), more
in keeping with the first half of the story, more exciting and not so darned
convenient, all tied up nicely with a bow! That’s just not how it works! And I
hadn’t seen it!
I’m in the middle of rewriting/replacing
those chapters now and almost done (yes, I’ve been on a roll, working on the
manuscript every day, not just the weekdays before my day job begins).
And I’ve done something else beside
ripping out those words...I’ve set a deadline for myself. I don’t normally do
that for my writing (for my work stuff, oh, yeah, I have deadlines galore!),
but since I have, I should get back to it…
Stay well! Stay safe! And remember to
spread kindness wherever you go! Marie
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