I didn't go back to the beginning. I'm listening to some great advice and finishing the draft. 6.4 is finished and I'm emotionally drained. Word Count - 1024.

After a few weeks off for the holidays, I started working on LF again. Over the break, I thought a lot about the direction it was heading. My main character wasn't as developed as she should have been, so I'm working to fix that. I cut the opening, which had been monster-gets-old-man. While I really liked the opening, the story isn't about the old man, it's about what happens after his body is discovered, and it needed to start with the main character. So the opening was chalked and E got her first scene. Then the dominoes started falling. The next scene had to start at a different point, so rather than just quick edits, it needed a thorough rewrite. I have a feeling much of the first chapter will be like that. Ah well.

I need to stop thinking of this as something with an end-point that needs to be in the immediate future. If rewrites take longer than a few months, that's okay. If they need to go all year, that's okay too, as long as I'm working at it consistently. Some writers take months, some take years. I'll fall somewhere in there too. And I need to allow myself to do so, to take the time this story needs. Because I like this story. I think it's fun and will be worth a read once it's finished. And if I keep plugging away at it, I will finish it.

Word count for today - 893.