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Hey~ Not sure if this is the place for this, but anywho.
Do you ever get this? You're editing, slaving over sentences, trying to make your work good, ect. Then you get to a line, or something a character says, or a plot point, and even if the rest of it was crap, you suddenly think:
I/my characters/my plot/my setting/my climax/my turning point/my prose
is damn brilliant.
I think it's possibly the only thing that keeps me from fading into my cup of coffee when I'm line editing.
Just wondered if anyone else got that If so, what was it that made you go: If I was an agent/publisher ect, I would option out movie rights on that "thing" alone.
For me, it's my characters, and one paragraph of prose. That's it - the rest needs a hell of a lot of work.
But that stuff makes it worthwhile
Do you ever get this? You're editing, slaving over sentences, trying to make your work good, ect. Then you get to a line, or something a character says, or a plot point, and even if the rest of it was crap, you suddenly think:
I/my characters/my plot/my setting/my climax/my turning point/my prose
is damn brilliant.
I think it's possibly the only thing that keeps me from fading into my cup of coffee when I'm line editing.
Just wondered if anyone else got that If so, what was it that made you go: If I was an agent/publisher ect, I would option out movie rights on that "thing" alone.
For me, it's my characters, and one paragraph of prose. That's it - the rest needs a hell of a lot of work.
But that stuff makes it worthwhile