This book has also been written for some time, like The Document, and the manuscript was also sitting in a box with half a dozen others gathering dust and not quite as complete, so this month it is going to get the makeover, a first draft for the editor.
And so it begins…
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So you think everything is running smoothly.
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Think again!
So, here’s the thing …
I changed the start. It was bothering me. Bothering me so much I couldn’t sleep.
Parts of the first chapters were alluding to events that didn’t seem to add up, so I wrote the whole piece so I could draw upon it later on.
Yes, I like the idea of full-on action to start, bullets flying, people dying, and heart-racing tension. I call it the ‘James Bond’ start, like what happens at the start of a James Bond film.
And, yes, you guessed it, I now have to make changes down the line in the first four chapters, now delaying the completion of chapter five for day six.
OK, stop whining and get writing!