Karleen Koen

Well, I'm in it again, and I find that I'm loving it. I completely agree with my editor's suggestion to move some chapters around. But that comes after not looking at my work for several months. I was dreading the idea of reading me again, and I find myself glad to revisit young Louis and the cast of characters around him. Moving chapters isn't simply changing page numbers. Story threads, hints of future action to come, have to be unthreaded, then rethreaded, or deleted. But I'm enjoying it and liking writing new scenes. A little vacation from one's work brings a cooler, clearer eye to it.