Starting Over

I'm writing a new book based on a short story I recently sold. (More details on -that- later.)  Ye Agente read the story along with my short treatment for a novel and was enthusiastic about it.

Now I have to actually write it.

The working title is PARADIGM SHIFT.  A guy who dropped out of law school to become a bricklayer is coerced into swapping places with his double from a parallel universe in order to save the world. Or maybe he'll destroy it.

I'm loving this so far.  It's a first-person narrative, which I find myself doing more and more lately, and Sikander's voice is fun to write.  I've written a handful of chapters and went back to do some rewriting for Ye Agente, and realized I had the opening all wrong.  It was awful.

So now I'm tearing the first chapter apart and starting over.  The writing life...