Suprising Myself
I’ve had one heck of a week. My hormones decided to go crazy and so I was an emotional wreck. On the plus side, I’ve discovered that I write better when I’m an emotional wreck.
The original redemption - the first six chapters - was written in a period of one week. Seriously. I had a dream about the initial throne scene and once I got started I couldn’t stop. I didn’t eat, didn’t sleep (well, much, about four hours a night or so), didn’t do much of anything but write for a week. It was very, very strange. It was like the story poured out of me.
Later I go back and read that initial work and wonder how I managed to write it. Just like I’ve been reading over the redemption rewrite and wondering the same thing. I wrote that? Sometimes it’s amazing how things work out. So I’ve decided to set up a redemption area here and post my drafts and work on the story so maybe I can manage to make myself get somewhere. The past two days I’ve done the first two chapters, they’re complete, the other chapters will probably get worked on a lot and the draft versions will be different from the posted finals 
I don’t know why I’ve had such a hard time with the rewrite, I think it’s a combination of the new characters, my awful perfectionism, and feeling overwhelmed by what I’ve already written. But I’ll push myself through this, I promise
The trick is to get past the point where they’re all off planet, if I can get that far a lot of the story will continue the same way. We’ll see how it goes
