I'm sure I won't have as good insight as the people who've read the chapters. It's clear you're having an important strategic rethink, and I am sure the book will be stronger for it.. I'm very familiar with finding I started the sequel in the wrong place, I needed to land in the new situation and have the world turned upside down in the first couple of chapters, not 25% in!. Random thought, maybe give us three strong chapters of the strong character and then one of the second and then they meet. A thought on your drifter, people who have had it fairly easy can sometimes know that and feel purposeless. I knew a Trust Fund baby at uni (who never said he had money coming) who drifted, waiting for his life to start when he got the money. And he didn't know what to do when it did. ANyway, suspect you are asking exactly the right questions.
I'm sure I won't have as good insight as the people who've read the chapters. It's clear you're having an important strategic rethink, and I am sure the book will be stronger for it.. I'm very familiar with finding I started the sequel in the wrong place, I needed to land in the new situation and have the world turned upside down in the first couple of chapters, not 25% in!. Random thought, maybe give us three strong chapters of the strong character and then one of the second and then they meet. A thought on your drifter, people who have had it fairly easy can sometimes know that and feel purposeless. I knew a Trust Fund baby at uni (who never said he had money coming) who drifted, waiting for his life to start when he got the money. And he didn't know what to do when it did. ANyway, suspect you are asking exactly the right questions.