So now I had the issue of two weapons.   I swear I literally smacked my head with the palm of my hand.  How could I have done this?  My timeline sure didn’t help. Ha ha.

I went back to the chapter where the body was discovered and re-read it and then read it again.  There was no way to make it work by taking the gun out of the discovery of the body.  So that meant I would have to re-think the end of the book and the discovery of the second non-existent gun.

I read over the last chapter and how everything flowed to the end of the book and the solving of the crime.  And thought about how I could change the flow to make it work.  I actually made no changes that day at lunch.  Just read through it again and again, cussing internally to myself for letting me screw it up.  I am sure it happens to other writers, but it made me feel like I was a failure.  How could I have messed it up….something so simple?

Alright Barbara, get over it.  The next day at lunch, I made up my mind what I was going to do and opened the document to work on over my sandwich.  I again went back and read the part about the discovery of the body and the chapter on the discovery of the gun and came up with a work around.  The discovery just had to be something that proved the person was the killer, not necessarily the gun.  So I spent the next two lunches rewriting that part of the book.  I had to change a few more things to make it all flow right, but I finally thought I had it.

Again, I listened to the experts and went back and read it from start to finish.  It read much easier this time through but I still found a few things I changed as I read the completed project.

Ok, I think I have it.  Now what do I do. 

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