So we’ve established repeatedly the original draft of The Promise is so bad I may as well write a whole other book with the characters. So we’re good with that. Greenlight for Rewrite. Now the object of the game is not to think about it for oh… half a decade or something so all the weak bits can fall off into the abyss of forgetfulness.
Only… Only surprise! In the span of two babbling emails the plot, the premise, the tweaks to the world building, the alterations to the characters just fell right out. Aaw hell no. I initially came up with the wafer thin plot of The Promise in two days. And now here’s this fully realized concept in less than 24 hours. I? Am mistrusting of this seemingly rock solid concept. I think because it’s so fresh and so shiny I don’t know how to be objective at it in this point and time. My heart is all oh yay! LET’S GO! and my head is all NO! SIT! STAY! Remember the last time? Do you want a repeat of the last time? 
The funny part about it depending on the angle taken it can either be a very ‘action/adventure’ with very light romance or it can be liberal ‘romantic adventure’ with chunks of action. Oh hey I did that already with 10-9. Fancy that!
I pretty much have a beginning and middle all ready to be put to paper and I kind of have two diverging ending concepts and I’m kind of unsure which is the ‘Good Ending’ and which is the ‘Bad Ending.’ A writer friend helpfully pointed out to me I apparently have a theme in my work where the characters make the wrong move and get themselves into worse situations. One of my best friends a while back jokingly referred to me as Alan Moore because I do horrible things to my characters such as Mr. Moore. (May I direct the populace to Watchmen as the penultimate example? Talk about being mean to characters!) I don’t know. Call it a leftover trait of doing comics where you push a character out on a limb over a pool of ravenous frenzied piranhas and start sawing.
Anyway… I’m not saying all systems go for launch on the rewrite. I’m just saying all the parts of the puzzle are there. And save missing a piece here or there the picture is pretty clearly defined already. I’m just going to not think about it. Even if I’ve been having waking dreams about scenes again and it gets me out of bed excitedly at an actual normal human morning hour of WELL before 9AM.
Watch me not think about the vampiric elephant stomping on my head. I have 10-9 to finish editing.