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Pasted the new chapter into the main file…Almost 263,000 words.  Yikes!  Somebody hand me a machete!

Ha!  I went and got even with Karill…I called in his daddy!

Yep, I found time to do the rewrite. This time it flowed even more easily than the last few days.  Hubby says I finally got it.  Man, why did I ever teach him to be a good reader?  In the old days he just nodded and said that’s nice, dear!

Lucky to have him. He’s helped fix many a problem.

Back to the real world and real work.

Hubby read the five pages I rewrote, the section he told me dragged the most.  He says it’s working now.

WooHoo!!! Happy Dance.  I own Karill’s head right now!  He doesn’t own mine…finally.

Even though he didn’t say the last five pages needed it, I’m going to rewrite the end…Soon as I pick up my mom and dad from SFO.  They are flying home today from three weeks in Russia and the Baltic states.  I swear they travel more than they are home…hmmm….I wonder if they’d notice if I posted their house on AirB&B…

Supposed to be doing something else, but I finally have a toehold in Karill’s head and I don’t want to lose it.  Switching POVs always messes with my mind.  I think I know what else is wrong.  Simplify and Intensify.  Make it easy to portray and easy to read, make it a more emotional event for Karill, and it will be a more emotional event for the reader.

Luckily, I have a technique for doing the latter…I’ve actually taught it at a couple of cons I’ve gone to.  Am going to try what I teach in The Lie of Show Don’t Tell. I’ve used it once before when I was massively stuck.  Let’s see where I go with it this time.

So it’s put you money where your mouth it time!

I’m not writing at the keyboard today, but as is so often the case, my brain is turning over problems.  I think the solution to my problem with chapter 49 remains the same.  Keep simplifying.  I don’t think I went far enough.

Been working on it a lot.  Not up to facing it today on the screen, so today I get all the diary entries I’ve been keeping in a word file and get them online.  Hubby is spending the day trying to get a custom Web site up for Leasspell.  We have a working blog on blogger.  Good site, but to simple too do what I want.  So we’re designing our own.  I hope this works out.