After several days away, I had to carefully read my way back into the scene. Today, I managed to do so without changing much. Not because I didn’t find anything that I wanted to change, but because I found too much that I wanted to change. I was tempted to rewrite significant chunks of it, and that was enough of a warning sign that I didn’t touch it at all.
I’m realizing now that I am going to need to go through some major revisions to get this into the kind of entertaining read that I want it to be. But for now, the most important thing I can do is to get the complete story out and on “paper”, so to speak. Once I have the storyline in place, I can worry more about how each scene unfolds and spicing them up with more than just the bare bones of action.
I’m also realizing that this story isn’t going to be as light-hearted and fun as I had hoped it would be. It really isn’t possible to do that when you blow up the hero’s home and just about everyone she knows at the start of the book and leave her running for her life. So, fun and lighthearted will have to come in another story, later on.