Hi all,
I've spent the last couple of weeks revising the first five chapters. For the most part, the changes were mostly tweaks or making the style more consistent. Aside from editing to make it feel more like we're in Sophia's head, the biggest change in the first few chapters was turning a quick mention of gym class in chapter 1 into its own scene. Other than that, the story is essentially the same.

Chapters 4 and 5 have the same sequence of events, but the narrative has changed a fair bit. Before, Sophia had pretty much embraced being a werewolf at the end of chapter 4 and was actually quite gung ho about it in 5. This didn't work for several reasons, not least of which was it didn't really feel believable. It also left too little internal conflict for the next part of the story and beyond to deal with. So, the chapters have been reworked to make Sophia far more uncertain and conflicted about what was happening to her. (Originally, I was going to go the other way and basically have her completely terrified and bunkered down for the first change. In the course of writing, I realized this wasn't going to work. Unfortunately, I wound up going too far in the other direction.)

I'll be moving on to writing Chapter 6 and the next part of the story now, but it's certainly worth rereading to see how things have changed!