Back to Square One! Woo Hoo!

Seriously, folks, if you’ve never rewritten something, you’re either a complete literary genius or not interested if it doesn’t work out the first time around.

I got up to chapter 7 of my WIP and now, well, I’ve restarted and I’m back on chapter 1. I liked my original version. I haven’t deleted it and I haven’t totally abandoned it but I’m going to see how my new version goes before I do anything else.

What prompted this? I had a few people tell me that they thought the original was a romance. Ack! So not where I was going. Yes, there’s a bit of romance in it but it is far from the main story. And that got me thinking that maybe I’m just taking too long to get to the main story.

So I cut the first 3 chapters and restarted with chapter 4 and changed the POV.  

I already think it’s at least a better start. I think it’s more likely to garner attention from someone I might be querying since it cuts right into the action.  We’ll see how it goes.