Close, so close…

Finished 3800 words. Seventeen pages. All good stuff, but then DH read it over and where he has problems I have holes. Not exactly back to the starting line up. He marks the parts he likes.

So, apparently, according my first reader there's too much stuff and not enough clues. I don't need to start over he says, I just need to start better, sooner, faster. Let me know, he says, that there's a problem.

Well, duh, I respond. I thought I did. Nope. Didn't, he says.

So. If he can't get it, nobody else will either. And he knows the whole story.

A new beginning and wondering how many of those 3800 words and seventeen pages will survive.