Let me just say, this is the worst revision. I finally got my alternate beginnings done and sent them out to my betas, so now we’re in for more waiting.
(I just got an email from one beta that says she loves chapters 1-9 so she doesn’t even know if she wants to look at the alternatives. Which, I mean, fair, I guess? My other beta also said that they thought the beginning was mostly okay as is, but I haven’t heard back about the alternatives.)
So is the weird pacing at the beginning all in my head? Easily fixed by adding in some seasons underneath the chapter headings?
I am so very frustrated. I’m not sure what direction I need to be going in, here, and so I’m not sure how I should be working. Getting the alt beginnings done was something, but now that it is done, I don’t know what my next step is and I’m itching to be doing something. But I feel like I can’t finish tweaking the rest of the book until I know how it starts.
nnnnnnrrrgggghhh
I don’t really want to work on something else while I wait for feedback/ponder things, but I also feel quite useless at the moment.
I’m obviously too close to this whole thing, even though it’s been three years since I finished the last edit. I have written and rewritten and revised this book so many times, and I am ready for it to be done.
Have you ever felt like this, where you want to be working on something but can’t quite figure out how?
I suppose I could just make a judgement call on my own, but the whole point of asking betas to look at the beginning was for this exact reason.
Anyway, I need something to direct my energy into, but it’s got to be something that won’t take up too much mental energy.
Any ideas? Or any thoughts about what I can do while I try and figure out where the story should be starting?
