Continued working on Possession. My "problem" chapter continues to complexify now that it's in the right POV. Complexifying is a good thing. It's exactly the opposite of my over-populated, too-complicated plots, which are what I always start with. For me, complexifying is when a character says or does something that makes me say, "Hey, I didn't know that." or "That's cool."

Example? Ok. Today while my son was at soccer practice and I was at Deaf Dog Coffee (G&G Dog for those in the know) with the laptop, I was working on my no-longer-a-problem chapter and my hero said to my heroine, in reference to the villain, "I've known him a long time." And just like that, I knew that my villian is actually quite old and that my hero means hundreds of years, not dozens. I knew that my hero and the villain have been enemies for a very long time. But that's not the complexification. This is: The relationship between my heroine, hero and villain is suddenly fraught with tension that wasn't there before, and it's a tension that will permeate the entire story. She does not yet know the villian, who has raised her from age 8, is ancient. She has already left him. My hero knows something about the heroine that she doesn't: to wit, that the woman who would interest my villian to the degree she has must be special indeed.This fact will resonate throughout the story. I love it when that happens. And it's all because my hero said, I've known him a long time.