I got some feedback from one of my readers and it is tremendously positive. Thanks, Loretta!
Today I was working on chapter 4, and it's been like bashing my brain out with soap. Why soap? Because I'm trying to clean up and fix things. The problem is the big bang just happened in chapter 3 and now there has to be explanations of things that were hinted at before and reactions to what just happened. The whole chapter is a transition into the next set of decisions the character make. It's all a lot of thinking and talking and reacting and too much of that gets boring. Very boring. Which means you need to be really careful with these bits.
On top of this, various parts of the story have to be moved forward. Relationships need to be poked at. And it has to be the right relationships at the right times. So one scene that I had happening with John (the love interest of sorts) and Swan (the heroine) wound up getting changed into something between Mrs. Hamel (antagonist and mentor) and Swan because I realized I had enough with the guy and needed to move the other relationship a bit. However, the styles of each character are radically different. So while some of the same things got done and said plotwise, it still required a lot of rewriting and making sure those relationships gel.
Some days it all just feels very fuzzy and I have no idea what I'm doing and usually those days fall on these sorts of chapters. There is probably a link. But I think I have ended the day with something better than I started with. Chapter 5 will unfortunately be more of the same before the story picks up again. But in the next couple of days I should be to the part where things are exploding again. Those bits always feel easier. And more fun. Car chases and explosions. What is more fun than that?
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