E.M.E.T.I.B.

My book was done.

Like seriously done.

Until I changed it.

I'm already down from 92k to about 83k, and I'm still cutting... but still adding, too.

Why? Character Development.

Because my main character needed a little more, for lack of a better word, balls. And she's a woman. But I realized I had too many things happening TO her and not enough things happening BECAUSE of her. She was REACTING at times I wanted her to ACT.

What does it mean? That Arthea just got ten times more badass. Think Sydney Bristow in the first 50ish seconds of this clip:



BOOM