I chucked the first fifteen pages of my wolf children story (fifteen pages in my writing notebook, so about three thousand words) because it was all wrong. So that was a waste. Restarted and switched the narration from first person to third person omniscient. Like Tolstoi, I lord over all my dystopic characters, seeing all, deciding on their fates on my whims. I’m also going to delete any internal thought and adjectives. So basically I’m going for dry and unappetizing.
Still, wish I could have realized all this the first time through.