It Never Ends

Even though I finally wrote the end to Dark Earth, does that mean I'm finished? As in put to bed, end of story, finis, yadda yadda?

Of course not.

Especially when your ending causes a backward ripple effect. So I'm reworking the beginning. Just the first chapter. I reread and, as others have suggested, it really needs to pull in the reader more. When I read my later chapters, there's much more urgency and flow to my story that's lost in the beginning. With that said, as I'm doing my husband's edits, I'm also doing a clean sweep and pruning extraneous descriptions. Hopefully, this will help as well.

Last night I was trying to read but my husband had on a comedian from Comedy Central. He was so hilarious that I couldn't tune him out. His name is Dimitri Martin. He is in the same vein as the late and great Mitch Hedberg. He does a lot of word play and quarky observational humor, which I absolutely love. The one that pulled me out of my book went something like this:

I was in a clothing store and this woman said to me, "My name is Jill, if you need anything." "Wow," I replied. "I never met someone with a conditional name before. What do I call you if I don't need anything?"

Now, back to work! No more TV tonight. Ugh!