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  1. Hi Jean 🙂

    First, let me say that I love cats and I think that despite them pushing the keyboard, sitting on it, or simply blocking the monitor because that’s where they happen to like standing when you work, well, despite all that, they’re great!

    Second, very interesting. I usually do the same thing and try not to go back in the middle of writing a novel. I found that if I go back I tend to get stuck because my mind is still racing forward while I’m working backwards, so I totally understand you. Hope it works for you and that you manage to rework the character a bit. It’s hard to separate author and character sometimes. They do say that each character contains a bit of the author, don’t they?

  2. Because my nano novel was so short in first draft that completing nano and completing the draft were nearly synonymous, I didn’t take the time to re-work my female main character. My MMC came to life pretty well, problems and idiosyncracies and all, but the FMC was too nice and things were a little too easy. I’m going to have to do a lot of thinking when this resurfaces from the bottom of my revision file. I really don’t quite know what to do with her. Kudos for tackling Nikki straight off. Hopefully she will be a much stronger character for it, problems and all.