Paksworld

This afternoon,  my editor’s comments came in, and at first glance look reasonable, doable, and slightly embarrassing (why didn’t  I think of that and do it that way first??   Because I was head deep in the characters and thinking their way, not writer-way.)

If I’d been able to climb out–which would’ve meant writing the whole entire story first–I might have seen this but possible not.   The temptation of a sequel group 20+ years after the original group is to carefully outline all the connections for readers so they don’t get “lost” and that can (and apparently does) stick out as great big *slow down and listen* checkpoints.

This can be fixed, and will be fixed, and thank heavens for a good, sympathetic, and clear-eyed editor who understands how and why it happened but also that it can’t be left there.  Until I’m done with at least the first round of this, it supercedes work on number 2, which is far enough along that it won’t lose too much momentum while I’m cleaning up number 1.    (And yes, this is why I’ve been pushing on as hard as I have, despite having months till deadline.  I knew a major cleanup was coming and wanted this one past any “stuck” places–or at least most of them–before leaving it for a bit.)

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