Making Changes

I spent most of the day yesterday reading other writers' blogs and even a few agents' blogs and found quite a bit of useful information concerning what not to do when writing and the things that make agents and publishers cringe when reading query letters and manuscripts. This information made me realize that I may need to go back and rework the first chapter and a half of my book. I don't need to rewrite it, just move some stuff around to get the pace going a little faster. As much as I'm dying to go back and do that now, I know that I need to just keep going from where I'm at so I don't throw myself off track of my goal. I did, however, go back and add a couple little pieces of information to strengthen my plot.

I couldn't sleep last night, which is not unusual for me, so I started thinking about my plot and my characters and an idea occurred to me of something that I could add to make the story much more interesting. I went ahead and added it because it is now a vital part of the plot so I needed it there in order to incorporate it into the rest of the story. Does that happen to writers often?

I have a few questions about finding a critique group and about the critique process in general but I think I'll save those for tomorrow's post. Hopefully, others will have found my blog by then and can actually answer those questions for me :)

P.S. I think I've figured out what the "days to go" line means on my counter. It changes every time I update my progress so I think it is going by the average words typed each day. For example if I type 2006 words a day (which is what it says my average is at the time I'm writing this) for 25 days (which is what it says for days to go) that would bring me up to just over 50,000 words by whatever the date is next to "days to go". Hmm....Interesting.