I’ve decided to tear the Alaska chapter to shreds and start over. Why? It’s just too critical a chapter to leave it to the minor edits I had going.
I thought I knew what I needed to do with it and thought I’d fixed it. But when I reviewed it I was not happy at all. So I stepped back, put things into perspective, and asked myself what was so critical about this chapter that I wasn’t getting? The answer has since come to me – I know what the layout needs to be but I have yet to find all the words. At the moment, words are coming in dribs and drabs, and not all of them are any good. I’ve managed only to get the opening of the chapter down and now have hit a wall.
Maybe tomorrow will be better, or even later tonight. Too much on my mind to worry about it right at this moment.