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Morning Thoughts
Oct. 16th, 2014 05:00 amI think I've pretty much fully moved over to my other blog. Sorry. Between my paper journal and that, I'm not left with much to say.
But there are still a few things left for this space. Like fiiinaally getting a response to the manuscript I sent back in June to an agent. It was a no, of course, but the response was still very positive. And it gave me some ideas on how to fix MA, if/when I go back to it. Also made me realize some of it's larger structural problems, which was a feeling akin to scales falling from my eyes. Man, I've been writing for so many, many years and yet there's still so much to learn.
The agent said that although she really liked the political slant and the monsters (yay!), overall it felt too episodic, which ended up depriving the MC of her agency. Which is true. The first half is almost entirely episodic, and I'd like to blame my ancient novels class I was taking at the time I wrote the first draft, but idk. Part of me says it's fine, it's just another (albeit unconscious) riff on Roman culture that goes well with every other undercurrent I stole from my classics degree for the book. But the rest of me says that the current market - and what readers expect - doesn't include that kind of novel really at all.
Of course now I'm looking at my other stories and wondering if they suffer from the same, or a similar, problem. Not as badly, but I think there are some things I could change. Good thing I got this scrap when I did, because I think it will apply well to the rewrite I'm doing of ISW (aka, the desert lesbian necromantic romance adventure).
Life in other ways has been less than newsworthy. We're on a break from TTC. It's Lady's birth month, so we've been trying to do fall activities each weekend. And I'm writing, always writing.
But there are still a few things left for this space. Like fiiinaally getting a response to the manuscript I sent back in June to an agent. It was a no, of course, but the response was still very positive. And it gave me some ideas on how to fix MA, if/when I go back to it. Also made me realize some of it's larger structural problems, which was a feeling akin to scales falling from my eyes. Man, I've been writing for so many, many years and yet there's still so much to learn.
The agent said that although she really liked the political slant and the monsters (yay!), overall it felt too episodic, which ended up depriving the MC of her agency. Which is true. The first half is almost entirely episodic, and I'd like to blame my ancient novels class I was taking at the time I wrote the first draft, but idk. Part of me says it's fine, it's just another (albeit unconscious) riff on Roman culture that goes well with every other undercurrent I stole from my classics degree for the book. But the rest of me says that the current market - and what readers expect - doesn't include that kind of novel really at all.
Of course now I'm looking at my other stories and wondering if they suffer from the same, or a similar, problem. Not as badly, but I think there are some things I could change. Good thing I got this scrap when I did, because I think it will apply well to the rewrite I'm doing of ISW (aka, the desert lesbian necromantic romance adventure).
Life in other ways has been less than newsworthy. We're on a break from TTC. It's Lady's birth month, so we've been trying to do fall activities each weekend. And I'm writing, always writing.
