No actually I'm really glad I did.
It's entirely
@Elfy 's fault anyway!! Which is also why I'm glad I posted my chapters in the critiqued area. Would have wished for more reviews but in the end Elfy's one gave me a wake up kick in the derriere.
I wish to write something light and fast paced against a dark-grim background and spinning around pretty serious ideas. And the chapter I trashed was a lengthy presentation of the main character during a communal funeral pyre on the beach. Too heavy, too dark and setting a slow pace.
Besides, though I appreciate the references Elfy got me, I realised how inappropriate Melbourne would be for me. I've spent enough months there to realise fully that I wouldn't get away with what I wanted without massively rebuilding the town.
So I gave up entirely and decided to set up North-East of Melbourne with a new super-city, entirely created to host some of the millions of refugees that flooded Aussie. International influence and the need to create nuclear resistant housings will let me shape my new town just like I fancy. Really can't complain. It also gave me an all fresh idea for the opening of my work, so I'm pretty excited.
