So it's getting towards the end of November. What will you change in your novel if you decide to stick with it and edit it, after November?
I am already starting to see that I need to give my antagonist a better reason or motivation to make people miserable. I also need a trigger that is clearer, so that the reader can start to see how/why he emerges. I need to create more rising tension around the times that he emerges, so that his fury and destructiveness is evident. Right now, I allude to stresses and weakenesses in the (one of two) main characters that causes his alter ego to come out of hiding. But they're not really fleshed out. I will have to add that in later on.
Are your novel's problems already clear to you? Can they be fixed? What will you change?
I am already starting to see that I need to give my antagonist a better reason or motivation to make people miserable. I also need a trigger that is clearer, so that the reader can start to see how/why he emerges. I need to create more rising tension around the times that he emerges, so that his fury and destructiveness is evident. Right now, I allude to stresses and weakenesses in the (one of two) main characters that causes his alter ego to come out of hiding. But they're not really fleshed out. I will have to add that in later on.
Are your novel's problems already clear to you? Can they be fixed? What will you change?