I decided to give the first story one more draft.

The rewriting is getting tedious.  And what looked like a cut'n paste job with a few new scenes is quickly becoming a whole new draft; but I'm keeping my head up.  I got 6 days left for the 20/20 contest; and they only want the first 20 pages.  I'll meet that.  But the rest, oye!

Last night I got some pages done.  With the new thriller pace of events I created other story problems.  Characters that came across as benevolent now have harder edges because of how I'm getting the hero and villain together.  That doesn't bother me too much.  Keeping in mind what story information is coming out when is difficult.  You're so used to how the last draft reads you fall into the trap of thinking, "I introduced this character back there.", where now there is no back there.  Things like that too.

I'll try to get three to five more pages done before work tonight.  Catch you up tomorrow.