A few months back I came to a big road block with my novel. After discussing, trying to rewrite a scene in my manuscript, and MORE discussing, I decided the only solution was to move an entire chapter. AN ENTIRE CHAPTER!!! Here I thought the revisions on my first draft would be all grammar and spelling. Oh no, this is Marybeth we are talking about….Break out the full plot changes and chapter moving. No need to keep it simple or anything. That would be way too easy! Who would want to leave all the pain and suffering to the query letter alone?
Tell me dear friends. Have you ever made a large change like this after you considered your novel to be complete? Was it as thrilling for you as it was for me? Did you find yourself thoroughly questioning your own sanity as I did? What big changes have you made to your work in progress?
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Marybeth
Moving chapters is no fun!! It was a lot of work and I still have some reservations. But we do what we have to do. I still don’t know what to do with my first few chapters. I’m just not feeling them.
Cindy Wilson
Oh, boy–I am doing this right now. And this is with my contracted novel (shh, don’t tell!) I moved Chapter 1 and made it Chapter 4, I think, because it was backstory. And I have shuffled around two or three other chapters. Oh yeah and I have rewritten at least a third of it. It has been sort of thrilling! I can see it’s made a huge difference in the progression of the story. I am excited to see how it all turns out.
Sherrinda
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I haven’t gotten to the editing stage, other than that inner editor that keeps yelling in my ear as I write. I am nearing the end of my first WIP and then will tackle the scary process of the rewrite. Sigh…