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AWers, maybe you can help me.
i started this novel over two years ago. it was my first ever submission and rejection. it has been on the shelf for a year, almost to the week. i have returned to it now determined to make it work. i have streamlined the plot and focused much more on the protagonist. it is looking good, in note form.
i havent been idle the last year. i have written several shorts and a script. some of my work is getting very favourable feedback, lots of very encouraging personal rejections and shortlistings for anthologies. i feel my skills have come on leaps and bounds in the last 12 months since that first rejection.
why then, why oh why, cant i get this novel going? i have written it once, drafted ad nausium, re written and re drafted etc... i know the world, the characters, the conflict both internal and external and the motivation of my mc. i have a very good idea of the point i am trying to make-my theme, and it is going to be a rip roaring read, if i can get the thing going. i cant. it wont work. why??? i wrote the first paragraph yesterday, deleted, re wrote it, deleted,.. i did this all day!!!
this is all very frustrating.
maybe it is this; i cant seem to establish the fantasy setting and focus on the mc in the first line.
there we are, i have found a way into the problem, just by typing furiously. perhaps there is no need now to post this. i am going to read the first page of all the fantasy novels i have on my shelf and se what is going on there.
if any of you guys can offer any suggestions i would love to read them.
i started this novel over two years ago. it was my first ever submission and rejection. it has been on the shelf for a year, almost to the week. i have returned to it now determined to make it work. i have streamlined the plot and focused much more on the protagonist. it is looking good, in note form.
i havent been idle the last year. i have written several shorts and a script. some of my work is getting very favourable feedback, lots of very encouraging personal rejections and shortlistings for anthologies. i feel my skills have come on leaps and bounds in the last 12 months since that first rejection.
why then, why oh why, cant i get this novel going? i have written it once, drafted ad nausium, re written and re drafted etc... i know the world, the characters, the conflict both internal and external and the motivation of my mc. i have a very good idea of the point i am trying to make-my theme, and it is going to be a rip roaring read, if i can get the thing going. i cant. it wont work. why??? i wrote the first paragraph yesterday, deleted, re wrote it, deleted,.. i did this all day!!!
this is all very frustrating.
maybe it is this; i cant seem to establish the fantasy setting and focus on the mc in the first line.
there we are, i have found a way into the problem, just by typing furiously. perhaps there is no need now to post this. i am going to read the first page of all the fantasy novels i have on my shelf and se what is going on there.
if any of you guys can offer any suggestions i would love to read them.