Meredith Mansfield, Author

It’s about time to switch back to BECOME: TO CATCH THE LIGHTNING to start the revision process.

But not quite yet. I’m going to finish at least the current chapter in BECOME: TO RIDE THE STORM, first.

Actually, that won’t take very long. If the chores don’t take up too much of my day, I should finish today.

The hitch is that I’ve just decided to break what I planned to be one chapter into two. That’s for two reasons:

1. The chapter is already ten pages long (about as long as I like a chapter to be) and not yet finished.
2. The now two chapters have slightly different purposes. The first (not actually chapter one, obviously) is where this character is getting his first real impression of who the father he never knew really was. The second is where he demonstrates for the first time that the apple didn’t fall far from the tree.

So, there’s a decision to be made. Stop after I finish this chapter and start the revisions on BECOME: TO CATCH THE LIGHTNING or stay with the momentum and write the next chapter, too. The chapter after that changes to a different point-of-view character (which always involves a little loss of momentum anyway) and would be a more logical place to pause for a month or so. I suspect that’s what I’ll do.