Woke Up Drunk

Almost done with Chapter 2.  Editted Chapter 1, again.

Changes

The preface is now Chapter 1, making the original chapter 1 Chapter 2 now.

Musings

All this editting reminds me of Jack Kerouac.  He didn't believe in editting.  He believed in putting down what was in your head once and leaving it at that, because that was true.  That was how it really came out of the writer's head.
I think that maybe this is because Kerouac was a poet at heart.  For the poet, it is the writer's thoughts and moods that they are able to convey that is important, because a poem is little more than the poet's well-worded and usually ambiguous diary of moods and musings.
For an author, it is the characters' thoughts and feelings that are important and this is why a writer who is an author at heart edits the hell out of his writing.
"Author," in this case being a writer who writes stories with characters and plots - and poets and authors, of course both being writers.

In any good first-person or limited omniscient POV story, the statements made in the story telling are not necessarily true.  This is because the character's perception of truth is all that matters in the story.  The real truth is irrelevant because you are reading the story as if you are living through that character's mind.