Eternally Blessed.
The elements of the story of Noralee Church, the errand girl of the Angels… are all very promising. A wonderful story is there.
But it feels like there’s too much story. The novel is sitting over 240K words now. This story has been through several very large rewrites. And now, I find myself debating yet another drastic change… split the book in half. but not simply stopping halfway through the book… but by plot threads.
It seems that there is so much book, so many threads, that I risk losing and confusing readers.
I dread this, as it feels like it is only barely better than entirely rewriting the book. But, at this point, I feel like have written a series of Eternally Blessed books, and have a trail of discarded novels, each one capturing a piece of what the final novel needs to be, but none actually hitting the mark.
I’ll make it work. But I’m ready to bang my head into the keyboard.