From Twitter 06-17-2010

[naomi_jay]

• 10:53:24: Am giving serious consideration to scrapping what I've written of Bad Dogs so far and starting again
  
• 10:59:30: I'm really not happy with the first chapter, especially, and am thinking of ways to give it a bit more bang, most of which...
  
• 11:00:40: ... involve starting over. Annoying, but less annoying than if I'd made this decision 10k into the novel instead of 5k
  
• 11:33:46: @janjonesauthor I think three times is my record too. But I ended up rewriting that novel about six times altogether
  
• 13:07:11: Okay, one lunch-time brainstorming session later, I have a plot for Bad Dogs that I'm actually happy with! Will definitely be starting over
  
• 13:07:30: But I know what I'm doing now, so hopefully I can make up the lost time quickly
  

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[manifesta (from livejournal.com)]

I'm really not happy with the first chapter, especially, and am thinking of ways to give it a bit more bang, most of which...

This is where I'm at. I'm willing to scrap what I've got, but I'm stuck at trying to find a way to give the intro enough bang while still containing at least one element that I consider mandatory.

*sigh*

[naomi-jay.livejournal.com]

Exactly my problem! There's some important stuff happening in chapter one, but I'm sure there must be a way to convey it without bogging the reader down in dull details.