Gorgeous!!!

The story is finally coming alive beneath my fingers. And that feels so fucking amazing.

…but the way I was framing my MC’s internal thoughts and motivations.

So I wrote a new introduction/chapter to the universe and have been reworking what I had already drafted previously. And while it’s going to be particularly difficult to execute, all the joy and excitement is back.

Writing from Jim’s POV, where the constant labor of his rigorous iron-gripped control over his emotions, choices, what he communicates and how and when, and under what conditions he actually permits himself admission of fears or difficulty or loneliness made me realize my problem wasn’t the novel,

Right after Reverberations I dove into outlining for what I thought was a very compelling sci-fi novel, but when I started writing it, it became more and more difficult in a dull way and eventually I stopped fighting it and put it away.