I picked up the first two chapters of Sarah's book day before yesterday and started reading them through in preparation for working on the next chapters and getting this revision done.
This is the first time I've really looked at this draft of these chapaters since I got them done in November... so they've sat a while. And as I began reading the first chapter I was marking things up as usual, tightening this, fixing that... and I got to page 11 and the whole tone of the story immediately changed... it was suddenly interesting!
Having one of those this-is-a-clue-that-something-is-wrong flashes of inspiration... I pondered... I read back through the beginning pages... I pondered some more... and then I realized:
Almost the entirety of the first 10 pages are backstory!!
Oh!
So THAT's what's wrong with it.
Duh!!
God! I feel like an idiot. **shaking head**
The good news is that it's fixable... but not today, plate is too full today. But soon, and it feels good to finally know what the problem is.
