Beautiful Death

I'm ashamed to look back over my goals for this year, because one of them was a completed first draft of BD by 3/31. I haven't worked on this ms for months.

Why?

I'm stuck. Not plot wise, at least as far as the ending is concerned. The setup is wrong.

It's been bugging me for a long, long time. How can I fix it? How can I go onward to the ending, no matter how exciting, when I know the first most crucial setup is wrong? Which makes everything else shaky at best?

After the long trip to MN last week, we slept in this morning. We were supposed to go to church, but I was just pooped. The monsters were all up but playing nicely. I lay in bed half awake, half asleep, drifting, and the characters from BD came to visit me.

Charon was first. He was pissed. "You've made me into Hade's sidekick. Sidekick! Me! I *should* be an anti-hero. I should be the great question mark. Will I betray him or not? So why the hell would I want to share my woman with him?"

Then Isabella came, and she wasn't happy either. "What, do you think I'm stupid or something? How would I not know who Hades is? Of course I know who he is. You have to make me fall in love with him anyway."

Even Bryan made an appearance. Sweet, submissive Bryan. Can you believe he's been talking to Persephone? I about died.

So the good news is I think I have a few ways I can tackle this wip. A few key shifts and adjustments early on. Some cool scenes will have to go, which is painful. But, well, I really want this to be something I can send to Dorchester. To do that, I need to murder a few beloved darlings.