A nightmare soothed

Writing this week has been a nightmare. I've had friends visit and a family get together to attend so I've had to catch my writing in the between moments.

I have been writing every day -- but 50 words here and 100 words there, so I don't feel I've achieved much.

Even worse, trying to set my prologue into something coherent that could launch into chapter one without the need for flashbacks made me realise I'd missed out something. I just couldn't work out what it was. Now I know. I've used the wrong focal character.

My prologue focused on the child who witnessed the murder. How stupid am I? The one thing everyone needs to know is what the murderer was up to and why. Yep, I should have written it from the murderer's perspective! Sigh.

So I'm rewriting the prologue from the murderer's POV and it is much better. I can say what I need to say.

It sounds like a set-back but really it's progress for me. I have suddenly found out how important it is to make sure the correct person is at the focus of the scene so that it moves the story forward.

And I have to confess that my mother isn't THAT bad with her computer. She's improving in leaps and bounds. But I still want her computer for myself!! Envy is a terrible thing.