Starting Over

So I'm starting over on "October Bell." The story had lost its simplicity in a web of over-worked phrases and pressurized metaphors. It's just a story about a boy and his new mom and the celebration of that. I actually took the old story, which had been divided into pages, and tried to state the essence of what was on that page in a sentence or two. I think the result might be better than what was there before.

Hey, what about a book called The President's New Plan? It's about a President who thinks that he is the man with the ultimate plan, but when he presents his idea . . . it's terrible. Everyone around him tries to act like the plan is awesome because they're afraid/ashamed/embarrassed/whatever . . . sound familiar? Sound really familiar?