Revisions and new ideas

Yesterday, I decided to pull out the MS I completed for NaNoWriMo (working title: Julia's Song) and take a look. I even sent it to my Kindle so I could read it more easily.

I'm not all the way through it, but here are some things I definitely need to work on:

1. It needs a much better beginning. As it is, it kind of starts twice because I changed my mind about both where/how to start AND the pov character partway into the story.

2. There's a subplot that probably has to go. It's out of place in this story and doesn't go anywhere.

3. The romantic interest needs a lot of fleshing out. She's kind of flat and boring.

4. A few other characters need some work as well. There's some backstory that I left kind of vague and undefined, but now I'm pretty sure I know what I want it to be.

There are a lot of things I like about this story, which I suppose is a good thing. I'm not entirely convinced that it's good *enough*, but I guess that's what revisions are for...I'd just hate to do the revisions and then decide it's crap. Meh.

I have another seed of an idea floating around in my head. A paranormal thriller. Thriller? What the heck am I thinking? But there it is, and it doesn't seem to want to go away. I'm thinking of a teenage protagonist, and I'll want to create a sort of Scooby Gang of characters around her. She sees dead people, and solves mysteries. Think Veronica Mars meets Buffy meets The Sixth Sense. Or something. It's still pretty vague and nebulous right now. ;)