Meredith Mansfield, Author

This past week I finally, finally, finished the new material at the beginning of DREAMER’S ROSE.  I don’t know why this early material fought me so hard, but it always has.  In the first draft, I finally gave up on it and started the story later, but that doesn’t really work.  So, I went back and tried a different approach, which feels right.  It was still hard to write though.  Maybe it was just all the pain and suffering I went through the first time that made me reluctant to tackle that material again. 

Eleven new chapters at the beginning are finished now and I think it will make a world of difference in the story.  I will be having someone else–maybe more than one someone else–read those chapters soon.  I need an unbiased opinion about them.

Now that that’s done, I’m starting on the revisions to the original first draft, which are going smoothly–even when I need to write new material.  It feels really good to have the story flowing again.

Sometimes in life, and especially in writing, you just have to celebrate the small victories.