author: Nicole J. LeBoeuf

This ain't no NaNoWriMo anymore. Editing is allowed.

Sunday I was moaning about creating first draft when I ought to be revising what I have. Well, today I'm polishing the new scenes until they seem done. I don't want to have to do a second pass, after all - if anything, just one reread for typos and obvious stupidity. So I'll be taking the time, when new scenes need to be written, to go over the new scenes and make 'em as perfect as reasonable assessments of time allow.

Accordingly, I've changed the excerpt on this site again. I've put up the entirety of the first chapter, and I'm actually quite proud of it.

I'm not going to go crazy with the excerpts, of course - too much of that, and the whole thing comes dangerously close to being previously published. But I like the idea of providing friends and family with that first glimpse, like when you pull a book off the shelf and start reading the initial scene just to decide whether you want to buy it.

Not that I'm inviting anyone to tell me whether they'd buy it. I am so not ready for that kind of pressure. But, y'know, pretend.