What a bummer to work two years on a book, writing and rewriting hundreds of pages only to find out it's not any good. My editor and agent all found good parts, but when I reread it I knew-it wasn't good enough. But eureka-I had an idea. One little part of the story was what I loved the most and that was the idea I grasped. Yesterday I started writing a new story based on that one little kernel-I hope it works this time!