Forensic has popped into my head this morning. Slow, methodical, painstaking work to analyse what has happened. What exactly is the truth of the story I have written? As another person, I have to go back to the scene and find out what really occurred there. What is still to be discovered?
I have begun re-writing, The Key to Finlac, opening the book with an entirely new episode involving a character I knew little about before. And as I'm discovering, I had not properly explored and explained the world she inhabits. I have been looking for clues - trace evidence - and putting a credible scenario together to present to the reader.
It is delicate work, tricky in that I have to tread carefully so as not to destroy or contaminate that which needs to be preserved.
Without all the pieces, those already logged and those freshly seen, the story cannot be rightly told.
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