Three Paragraphs

Just before I finished the first draft I came across some stuff I had written months ago. I remembered writing it in a short period of time. There was little to no editing done on the passage before I came across it again. I was surprised at how much I still liked it.

I had previoulsy cut out whole swathes of the book and completely rewritten passages. The idea was there, but the execution at times left something to be desired. Half the problem was that I didn’t fully know what the book was about or where it was going. The other, was that I had never written in such length and description a fiction work before.

BUT, back to the point, these few paragraphs that I found I liked quite a lot. They made me even chuckle a little. I will not reveal them here. I don’t want them to be like the taglines from movie trailers. You see them fifty times before the movie, so when you see that a particular line delivered in a movie, it feels cheap and used.

Further, it gave me a little hope that the book won’t be complete garbage, that if by some miracle someone pays for this thing, they won’t be utterly disappointed when they close the back cover. I suppose, there are still a few more steps along the way before that happens though.

If you want to look for the place I’m talking about, its towards the end of the first part of the book. It involves coordinating family and eating. Sort of. That’s probably vague enough to not give anything away.