I’m on the down stretch of the first major revision of Moving on Nightfall. I think the last 40 pages need to be expanded a bit, as when I got near to finishing my rough draft I just wanted to get it down. Plus, now that I know how it ends, I have to smooth out all of the continuity issues that exist because of my characters doing things other than what I had planned for them. Sometimes this is as small as changing a sentence, but I have also totally rewritten some scenes.

As a character, Jenny changes and grows quite a bit through the book. She’s tough and street-smart, and she knows how to survive, but at the same time she rolls with the punches and doesn’t always stand up for herself, instead focusing on survival. That is one of the things that change about her as the novel goes on, in that she thinks about what she wants, how to get it, and how to stand up for herself even when she’s scared. It’s always good when a character grows through the progression of a story. It is when they don’t change and/or grow as I write that I have to stop and re-evaluate what I am putting down. If the characters don’t change, when realistically they should be, I know I am heading down the wrong way and need to take a step back from my write and figure out where I went wrong.