SUMMARY OF EDITS FOR CHAPTER TWELVE

Apart from a small arrow indicating that the start of the first paragraph should be against the left hand margin, a missing question mark and one small typo, this chapter didn’t draw any criticism from my editor. At first glance it seemed that it required almost no work at all. Appearances can be deceptive.

This chapter marks the midpoint in the story. It is where something happens to set the MC off on a new path. In the first draft, the MC became less proactive from this point on. This was the main issue which needed to be addressed when I set about revising.

Because of changes I’d made to earlier chapters, much of what I’d written became redundant and so I cut out almost 80% of the original text.

The manner in which the MC is forced to change direction wasn’t as dramatic as it could have been. This is where I needed to go and lie down, close my eyes and come up with something better. I’m not going to give away too much here but the solution was so simple, I still wonder why I never thought of it in the first place. Of all the revisions I have made this is the most significant and really sets the second half of the story alight.

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