A 5-minute catnap while I was waiting for Alex to come back from the toilet gave me just enough brain power to accomplish one small task today. My novel opening is complete. Chapter 1 is a whopping 240 words, but I think it’s done. (Powerful words: IT’S DONE. I don’t say them lightly.)
That’s the good news. The bad news is that I accomplished this by starting the novel in a different place–at the climax of the story. Now I have to back up nine months, take my original opening (well, it’s more like the 6th major rewrite of the original opening), and fix that.
Tomorrow. Not today. I’m shot.
Kathleen M. Basi 