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I am really, really struggling with trying to rewrite the beginning of "The Remorse of Others" in order to convey the same information more 'organically' rather than front-loading it :-( It's just completely messing up the pacing; I can write the extra material -- with great labour -- but it doesn't hang naturally together...
And my bathroom clock seemed to stop again after I put all the clocks forward; it was still audibly ticking, but for some reason the hands weren't actually advancing. No sign of rotten batteries this time.
As a last resort I changed the battery despite the tick (and despite the fact that it had a brand-new battery as recently as last November), and that does seem to have fixed it. Although I'm not convinced that it was a weak battery and not, for example, the motor on the back getting twisted out of alignment so that it doesn't engage properly with the hands -- though I tried wiggling it in various different directions!
And my bathroom clock seemed to stop again after I put all the clocks forward; it was still audibly ticking, but for some reason the hands weren't actually advancing. No sign of rotten batteries this time.
As a last resort I changed the battery despite the tick (and despite the fact that it had a brand-new battery as recently as last November), and that does seem to have fixed it. Although I'm not convinced that it was a weak battery and not, for example, the motor on the back getting twisted out of alignment so that it doesn't engage properly with the hands -- though I tried wiggling it in various different directions!