I’ve started revisions and I’ve found that I dislike them as much as I thought I would.  Something about going over something you thought you was finished and finding that it is “less finished” than you thought it was is, well, irritating.

I knew there would be a lot of things that I would want to adjust after I got back into it.  There were a few scenes I knew I wanted to cut or rewrite, but I wasn’t expecting to find no motivation for my heroine for the first half of my book.

 I could have sworn I added that in there.

I guess that’s because I know what her motivation is, what her inner conflict is.  But, here’s that whole difficult thing about writing:  just because I know doesn’t mean my reader will know unless I tell them.

So, I’m in the process of including the motivation behind my heroine’s conflict.  Apparently a person can write a full length novel without that in there.

*sigh*

I must admit that I truly thought it was there.   All of the parts from her POV are tainted with my perception of her motivation.  I just never stated it outright.  And I admit that she always felt off because of that, even to me as I was writing her.

It would have been easier had I done this in the beginning.

In my defense, I started writing this story with just an idea of plot, thinking I could carry it forward and it would all work itself out.  Now I wish I would have paused to rethink that strategy.

So my darling fellow wenches (and our dashing rogue – Q that’s you, my dear)…  In an attempt to help you all avoid this massive mistake, what are your character’s motivations?  I see the lot of you trying to avoid me.  Seriously, this is for our own good, I swear.  For those readers among us, what are your favorite storyline motivations?