Old beginnings and better ones.
I was going to start with a short story, or perhaps a first chapter or something. But, I thought to myself, which one? .... So I'm going through my story folder on my computer- If you're a writer you know the one, it's the place where all the old ideas go to gather dust and exchange stories about how they were fresh and new once. ( http://www.noveldoctor.com/2013/01/26/the-society-of-abandoned-manuscripts/ ) Anyway I end up picking up a story a started and forgot about a long time ago. I started reading through it, I remember the story, I remember where I planned to take it, I even remember the point when it did that wonderful thing of taking on a life of it's own, that point where the characters start talking back, or wandering off and doing their own thing. So I'm reading through the first couple of chapters, and I like the characters and where it's all going, there are even some flashes of descent prose in there. But damn is it badly written! I star