wow, so the book has u-turned to some very bad, bad place. It's painful to re-read.
Not, as in, I'm being too hard on myself but actually, actually painful to read.
Perhaps it has to do with a reviewer saying my characters are stilted. And, holy moley, is this guy stilted.
Yikes. I'm having a nightmare.
How to fix? How to engage back with the characters?
Part of it is that it's dang boring right now. Like dead boring. I don't care if they live or die boring.
