UGH! First chapters are hard! The only book I've ever gotten published (so far) had a first chapter I hated and couldn't fix properly until the very last edit before it went to the proofers when it just ~clicked~ and wound up fixing problems I didn't even know I had in later chapters. I'm glad you worked through your first chapter too!

And yay for project for avoiding other projects. I have way too many of those too. ♥