I finished chapter 5 revised, which is a misnomer because the content is all new. Tonight hopefully I will have time to read through it and tweak a bit before moving on to chapter 6 revised. Another chapter that will need heavy reworking.

I'm looking forward to chapter 7/8. They'll need work, but not the almost complete replacement I've been doing so far. Also, a couple of really interesting characters come into play. After that, I'll probably revisit chapter 1 and 2 again.

Help me set the scene: LA fender-bender between a rich guy in a midlife-crisis Ferrari and some college kids in a mom car...how long would they wait for the cops to show up? Would they feel inclined to stay in their cars? (I've been involved in an accident or two, but wheelchairs are always tied to the floor)

I don't know about LA, but here people get out of their cars and will wait quite awhile for the police if there is damage.

Ok, that's sort of what I pictured, but I'm only sure what to do when people are having coffee or something. Minor damage, but there's some.

You don't have to get out of the car, but you probably would if you're not injured, just to check for damage, etc., and talk to the other driver.

Unless someone doesn't have insurance or is drunk, or otherwise doesn't want the police anywhere near them, you're going to wait, unless it's a really minor fender tap or something.

Yee haw! Chapter 5 of the revision is finally done, you know, for this revision. I went back and rewrote a good deal of chapter 4, but it is for the best. I cannot wait to get done with the revision of 6 and finally start getting on with the plot. At the end of chapter 6 I will be at the end of chapter 2 in the rough draft. What took 16,000 words will now be done in 11,000 words (approx.) with an entirely new chapter that didn't exist in the rough draft.

Friday morning I was in a "This is utter crap!" frame of thought. Now I'm back in a "Hey, this might actually be good." frame of thought.

Friday morning I was in a "This is utter crap!" frame of thought. Now I'm back in a "Hey, this might actually be good." frame of thought.

Every writer's lament. ;-)

wrod.

Revised chapter 6 is turning into a pain. I have a bit of character interaction and some information to convey. I've done that and I've done it with a fraction of the words that the rough draft used. But I still can't get past that feeling that nothing really happens in the chapter.

There are some words burned on physically getting from point A to point B, maybe I can summarize those down to a sentence, kill the dialogue associated with it and move my chapter end point further back.

I really liked the current chapter end point, but if I cut any more out of it, this short chapter will be too short without a good reason for being so. It's already coming off a very short one scene chapter. Maybe I'll go for a longer chapter and stretch out to another place that would be good.

I finished revised chapter 6 . . . and fail. I had to dump the whole thing. Try again tonight.