It is a very wise man who does not chase power, Paul.
In writer news I submitted a short story yesterday. In non-fiction world I've written interview questions for my friend for a humorous article about moms and exercise I'm working on. My friend's name is Kristin Stewart. If I don't put a Twilight reference in there somehow I will not be human, even if I don't like the book. I think I will just put "Yes, that is her real name, and no, her child isn't a vampire/human hybrid." Golden.
I have finally realized after a hundred edits and two severe Floggings of the Quill that I need to rewrite the first 2 chapters of my book. When people read later scenes I usually get great remarks, but the first chapter is always a problem. Which shouldn't surprise me, since I'm trying to work with the same beginning scenes I wrote when I was 12. Relentlessly. Doggedly. Stupidly. Rewriting the same stupid crap again and again. Until the blood sweat flows. Blind to the fact that it will not work. Until now.
I'm going to combine several of my intro to Ashley scenes, and instead of the book opening with her laying in the bed looking at the Freaking clock it's going to open with her walking out the door. The only thing I'm still unsure of is whether I should keep all of my intro to Dayna and Kevin scenes and make them chapter two, or if I should not introduce the reader to those 2 characters until Ashley meets them. I'm thinking of doing the latter. I copied and pasted the first two chapters of my book into a new file and I'm experimenting. FUN!