Changing my novel.

I recently posted on here with the first part of the first chapter of a novel I had started.
The idea had been bouncing around my head for a number of years.

Last week, I popped outside of work for a cigarette and whilst I was smoking, I realised something. It was crap.
Not the idea, I still loved that, but the beginning.

SPAG feedback aside, the other comments I had received really didn't capture what I was trying to create so I started rethinking.

I feel I am still in research phase and the more I've done the more it seems to be coming together. I want to tell the story I want to and the reader will be more likely to 'get it'

I always felt my novel would tell a mood, my first draft of a chapter doesn't show this. I know I have given myself a difficult challenge with what I want to write, an unreliable narrator with a pretty bleak theme.
Though I still think the more I learn and write and change and adapt as the story unfolds, the better chance I have of pulling it off.

Onwards and upwards I guess.