Do you Dabble? Or Jump in?

I'm a dabbler.  I dabble my toes in the water before I take a big leap.  Gotta test it, right? 

The technique seems to be the same with my DEMON synopsis. One of my two trusted peeps got back to me with her comments on DEMON.  Well, they weren't comments so much, more like, 'we need to talk'.  You know, she wants to 'converse' about my commitment issues. 

A couple of things bothered her--heck, they bothered me, too, which is why I KNEW I had issues with the ending!  Anyhoo, we chatted.  She kept telling me EMOTION, EMOTION, EMOTION! about how I needed to dig into my heroine's emotion, but instead, I dabbled.  The interesting part of our convo was I had given numerous clues about the emotional aspect of the demon suckage, but I never really SAID it, which is why she picked up on it.  My trusted writing bud said it for me . . .

And I got it.  Demons eat fear like peanut butter.  It's good and creamy and comfort food.  But hate, vengeance, revenge are like molten chocolate cake--Decedent, heady, and to die for. 

It's on a whole different level than peanut butter.

Today, I'll rework the entire synopsis and make the heroine work for her starring credits. She ain't Angelina Jolie yet, more like Reece Whitherspoon--too perky and not a dark tortured soul.

*sigh* But I really liked the idea of my heroine stuffing her shirt with Holy water water balloons. . .

:-) Write on!