Sorting out the plot

In the shower at the gym today I realised I'd have to do quite a large re-write of the opening scene. Gurdjieff and Rasputin have to go. I wasn't too sure what I was going to do with them and to sort out my present plot problems I have to drain the swamp a bit. Anyway I had too many characters as it was. So I breathed a sigh of relief - phew!

I needed a better first scene anyway if I was ever going to impress a publisher or agent. Things are now slowly beginning to sort themselves out in my head. I still need to figure out one or two plot elements though before I can start the next scene. And I can't delay bringing the gentlemen rankers back into the story any longer. For a story that named after them they've been off stage for far too long!

So say farewell to this pair. Not that you ever really had much of a chance to say hello.