I've been reading my story from the beginning. Not too long ago, when I was working on chapter ten, I read only the first chapter, and my reaction was something along the lines of: "My writing used to be so good! What's wrong with me now?"

Now that I'm rereading the story in its entirety my thoughts are running more along the lines that what makes the story so good is that it is simple quality. I think now I'm trying to too hard to force in the "good stuff," and it's just coming across too hard. I need to relax and let the story simply flow.

Also, a new goal for myself: get as much of the story out as I can before the baby comes in March. That's five months, I should be able to do it, right? Riight. It's funny how when I post a chapter, it seems to actually be the season in which the chapter I wrote takes place: spring, summer, fall. Chapter Eleven is a flashback chapter to February 1934, but when we come back to the main story line, it will be November 2005.