Two steps forward, three steps back. I’d made some progress on TerraExitus. Not much, but enough to give me a feel for where I was going. And there’s the problem. I passed a few chunks by Stuart and we both arrived at a pretty similar conclusion. It was a bit too hard to read. I know what I was trying to do, but Stuart put it best:

I still wonder if attempting to deliberately create an artificial authorial voice with your second novel is altogether wise.

He has a point. I think I’d need to be far better than I am to pull off what I was trying to do. I need to have a think. Do I try to pull it off? Do I stick with the first person at all? I have so little time to work on this now, I’ll never finish it with too big a false start. I need to think…