So it started with just a line edit to Love and Loyalty. I spotted a few sentences that were a bit on the clumsy side and decided to fix them, leading to the discovery that my sentence construction skills had advanced in the last two years and that the entire book needed a line edit. Fine, I’ve been buckling down and working my chapter by chapter on this line edit.

That lead me to discover that some chapter were incomplete, missing vital scenes I had not bothered to write, nor even think of, when I originally composed them. So I started a file listing the newt scenes to write, along with the plans for an entirely new chapter 2. The job had grown, but just a bit.

Now my list of new scenes is more than 13 scenes long, no counting the entirely new chapter 2, and while washing my hands an epiphany exploded behind my eyeballs. (Truly, it feels better than it sounds.)

Now I am going to have to move chapters around. A fairly critical even in the novel, which happened more by chance than any other agency, will now be the direct result of actions taken by Seth Jackson the protagonist of the plot. The novel is growing deeper with more points of view now required to fully explain the plot. That said, I still think this will about at most 10,000 word in total, but I could wrong. Only time and pages will tell.