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Oooh, I'm getting really excited about this novel now.

I think it's now considerably stronger than it was a week ago, and I'm really excited to begin writing it. Essentially I've got to start again from the beginning; there's little of my first draft's twenty thousand words that I can salvage for inclusion in this iteration of the book. So much has changed and evolved that to all intents and purposes it's a completely different book.

I've written out all of the key scenes and I'm reasonably confident that there's rising tension, action, conflict and a few surprises along the way to the denoument. I think cause and effect seem in-character and credible. I hope all four of my main viewpoint characters are now strong enough to carry the story, and there are no weak 'filler' characters amongst my cast of POV characters.

Mainly, I think it's time to stop vacillating and procrastinating and just get on with it.