Novel Update

Okay, so, I am still working on THE NOVEL.

Since this is a new place to scream about writing on, I'll sum up briefly: I'm in the latter stages of editing a fantasy novel. Its been in progress for years by this point, and has been re-written from the ground up a couple of times after starting life as a NaNo novel. My goal is to start flinging it at agents this year.

My problem today is that I've reached s ascene I HAD intended to re-write. I wanted to cut a character and slide in one from earlier in the book, reducing over all character count, etc. The problem is that my beta reader really enjoyed parts of the scene as is, so now I'm like...FUCK. Fuck. WHAT DO I DO NOW.

I'm going to make the change anyway, but preserve as much of the dialogue as possible (at least, the spirit of it) and then see where I stand. If I need to, I hope i can go back to my beta reader and ask for her opinion.

Pbbbt. At this rate I'm not sure I'll finish this "in time". I mean I have a good excuse (9 month old babies are great excuses) but, ugh. A lot of it is also getting distracted by the internet, let's not lie.