Day 27: Your novel is a work of fiction, but...

"...that doesn’t mean your facts don’t need to be straight. Nothing turns a reader off quite as fast as a wrong fact. And nothing gives a story the ring of authenticity like the right fact or detail....Gore Vidal used old editions of Harper’s Magazine for details when writing his historical novels."

That's a good idea: Harper's Magazine. I'll see how to make a good use of it and other magazines.

The opening seems to need a bit revision. I didn't introduce the characters; they seemed to come from nowhere.

Maybe starts like this instead:

“Can you check if there’s some brown sugar left, hon?”

Rachel was in the living room getting the kids ready for school. As a 2nd generation Chinese American, she seemed to be more like a Chinese than an American. For example, she saw the home as her domain—a domain that she determined to assume sole responsibility and to take a very good care of it. She would not allow herself to make her husband worry a thing about it.

She was turning 30 in less than a week. A critical turning point for many women, even for the married ones. But not for Rachel. Her life had been all about her family and her family only.

73 more days.