Yes, after humming and haaing about whether to rewrite Cold Cuts in the face of my latest "turn down", I have decided that a rewrite is definitely in order.
Argh!
So, I went right back to square one and re-read the evaluation I had done back in 2005, to see if I had missed anything, and for an idea of where I might begin. Cheryl was most wise, and I was not, because I didn't quite make all the changes she suggested. Admittedly, initially it was difficult to "get" exactly what I should change to improve my bad guy (make him badder and more plausible) . . . but now I get it. And in getting it, an enormous amount of slicing and dicing is required to get my story to where it should be. I think I'm going to start with cutting the number of corpses in half, and revising the killer's motive somewhat. Not to mention, overhauling the foreshadowing I did, and the glimpses inside the killer's mind.
All this, and I haven't even re-read the ms yet!
Which reminds me, I better dig out the box with the hard copy in it, and get after it. I have many reams of paper, and fresh ink, so there's no excuse for avoiding this rewrite.
While I'm doing that, you should check out the new links I posted on the left, to some blogs of my fellow crime writers. Definitely some interesting reading there.
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