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On a Sunday! And no one to get me a Rolex. (o:
I'm working on my first two chapters; re-writing, editing, shunting things around. I've given up on the needy agent for now; concentrating on Tina Betts at Andrew Mann who worked so hard to get my novel published last time; all they want is a synopsis and my first 50 pages which is, like - normal for a first submission!
I was dreading working on Chapter One because I knew - thought I knew - that it was terrible. And it was, a bit (o: - badly overwritten, anyway and confusing; the structure was all over the place. So, I've been snipping away; deleted a good three thousand words (O:! Honestly, the opening chapter should only be about 3,000 words! LOL) moved things around a little. The good (I hope) bit about dealing with the toilet on a buckets of water a day now comes at the start of the chapter and not halfway through, after a ton of irrelevant history and... I'm actually pretty pleased with the end result. There was some good stuff in there; you just couldn't see it for all the dreck it was floating in.
I'm working on chapter 2 today; want to get that finished so I can get the submission in the post tomorrow, before the Government has a chance to close our PO (oops. Little bit of politics. Ignore it and it'll go away). Then start work on that other submission. Experience has taught me that you need at least 3 approaches on the go at once. It'll take the quickest of them a month to get in touch - usually it's 2 to 3 months before you hear back, and that's usually your ms (unread) and a bugger off letter, so you need to keep a few irons in the fire.
Those of you awaiting fic... next week. I promise. No, really; I mean it. I do...
I'm working on my first two chapters; re-writing, editing, shunting things around. I've given up on the needy agent for now; concentrating on Tina Betts at Andrew Mann who worked so hard to get my novel published last time; all they want is a synopsis and my first 50 pages which is, like - normal for a first submission!
I was dreading working on Chapter One because I knew - thought I knew - that it was terrible. And it was, a bit (o: - badly overwritten, anyway and confusing; the structure was all over the place. So, I've been snipping away; deleted a good three thousand words (O:! Honestly, the opening chapter should only be about 3,000 words! LOL) moved things around a little. The good (I hope) bit about dealing with the toilet on a buckets of water a day now comes at the start of the chapter and not halfway through, after a ton of irrelevant history and... I'm actually pretty pleased with the end result. There was some good stuff in there; you just couldn't see it for all the dreck it was floating in.
I'm working on chapter 2 today; want to get that finished so I can get the submission in the post tomorrow, before the Government has a chance to close our PO (oops. Little bit of politics. Ignore it and it'll go away). Then start work on that other submission. Experience has taught me that you need at least 3 approaches on the go at once. It'll take the quickest of them a month to get in touch - usually it's 2 to 3 months before you hear back, and that's usually your ms (unread) and a bugger off letter, so you need to keep a few irons in the fire.
Those of you awaiting fic... next week. I promise. No, really; I mean it. I do...
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