Revision – Procrastination – New Version

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Hey guys, welcome back! Been a productive week besides being sick, (again). I ended the week picking yet another pumpkin from our mini pumpkin patch and getting the first PSLs of the season! We have a place here in town that makes the best pumpkin spice lattes on the planet and we scored a couple this afternoon. My heart is happy. 

Anyway, I have been busy with the book and had a few days this week with a big smile on my face as I got to some particularly heart warming chapters. After having a slight breakdown during the more emotional ones that I had been working on for a couple of weeks, it was nice to write a few that brought the happiness my way. I just hope that when it is finally read by others, they too will like how the story brings such emotions. I want this to be a book that has you laughing, crying, cringing, loving and basically feeling all the feelings.

I’ve been dealing with a lot of procrastination in finishing this manuscript. I really don’t want it to end. As I’ve said in numerous posts, I love these characters and this fictional town so much, it has been my escape and I’m pretty happy living there every night. So the idea of having it end is killing me. Sure I’ve been thinking of continuing it with a sequel or making it into a series, but this is the first one and it’s the one that truly has my heart.

After doing the full reread of the entire thing so far, I noticed that I was coming up with a whole other idea for this book in my head. I really believe that this story can be told through the eyes of both lead characters and not just the one. So now I’m thinking a complete revision may be in order. Is this a way to postpone finishing the first draft? Possibly. However, I think it could also bring more depth to the story as a whole if I alternated the character’s points of views. I enjoy books that do this myself, so this may be something that works really well for this one. I’ve lived her story in my head for months and I’m finding that his voice is now there and leading me to his side of the story. I’m kind of excited to see where this will take me, plus, I would get to revisit the early story all over again. My thinking too is that if I do decide to go forward with this? I will have two versions and can then decide from there which will work better.

Having done some editing work myself, I’m noticing places where his side can fit rather well into the grand scheme of things. A little slice here, a major cut there and the insertion of the flip side of events and boom, the scenes will feel much richer in the long run.

Again, this could all be because I just don’t want to finish this book. I mean, I really do want it to be done because I believe in it so damned much. At the same time, I don’t because I love it so damned much. I just want this to be the best I can give my future audience and hope that they will end up loving these people as much as I do.

And that is where I will leave you for today.

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