After the various struggles this week, I think I got over the hump of it. The car repair place found out how they screwed up my car (apparently the supersekrit fuse under the driver side seat) and fixed it for free. The flashing lights and stalling are part of the security system, so once the computer started talking again, everything worked smoothly. It was also an expensive week. I have to push back a few bill payments just to get through it, but I think I have a plan going forward. I even annoyed Verizon by taking off as much as possible from the phone bill to reduce the price by another $20/month.

I’m happier.

In writing, I think I’m doing good. I wasn’t planning on working on Flight of the Scions until after My Father’s Bike, but the need to have something finished today for the writing group (Noble Pen) means I went with that instead of another comedy piece. I mean, I still don’t see me as a comedy writer, but most of my publishing successes are humorous.

The new chapter is much different than the first. It builds up the main character’s personality a lot more. It also changes them from whiny to slightly bitter/frustrated, which is an emotion I can work a lot better with. Plus, I got rid of the some of the low-grade Mary-Sueism. It also reduces number of introduced characters in a single chapter from 7 to 3. Though, since the earlier chapters dictates why things happen in the later, it also completely changes the why of the novel, but with the same end result as the original.

Later this week, I need to work on the commission. So, no distractions… yeah, right.