Continued from Part 1… After receiving much helpful feedback on my novel from agents, I had many questions to consider: Should I keep querying and hope another agent would accept the original manuscript? Or should I do an extensive edit? If I were to edit, how much would I change? Which of the agents’ suggestions […]
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The Write and the Re-Write, Part 1
In my very first fiction writing class, my teacher mentioned an author he knew who would write an entire first draft of a novel, then erase it- literally delete it from his computer– and start his re-write from scratch. My fellow students and I were appalled. I couldn’t imagine doing all that work and then […]
Just Keep Writing
Last week, I was corresponding with a friend and fellow writer whom I met at the Writer’s Digest conference back in August. We were comparing notes on the book-publishing dream; we’re both in the process of seeking agents for our first novels. After catching me up on the agents she’d talked to, the re-write she’d just […]
Conference Recap/August Mini-Series
As I wrote about in last week’s post, It’s Worth The Fear, I went to a writing conference this past weekend- the Writer’s Digest conference in New York City. Now I feel like a bit of a fraud for previously reporting that I had any element of fear about attending this conference. Sure, I was nervous […]
Ambition Is Worth The Fear
I have a dream, a goal, an ambition. It’s the most important thing in the world to me, after my family. I want to have a book published. (I was about to write, “I want to be a published author”- I almost forgot that I already am! And I’m very proud of publishing a short […]
Writer’s Un-Block
I don’t believe in writer’s block. Really, I don’t. But I do believe in bad writing, and that’s what I’ve been doing for the past few days. I’ve started two different posts to publish today, and I don’t think either of them are good enough to finish. And they were book reviews, which aren’t the […]