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So five or six weeks ago an agent asked me to rework my manuscript. I have spent that time working my butt off, and now have the finished product (bar a final edit).
I am too terrified to send it back! It wasn't like when I sent out the original manuscript - it was my first attempt at a novel, I thought I would have a punt and see if anyone took a bite. Now I have an agent who wants the damn thing, but ONLY IF I GET IT RIGHT! If she rejects it, I'll know I was so close, that it was within my grasp. Hell, I can almost taste that contract now...
I worked and re-worked this thing, chopped it up, pieced it back together, hacked it apart again... But when do I know it's right? Surely I should know? Or is it like a painting - maybe just one more brush stroke?
I made perhaps 75% of the changes she suggested, and I reckon it is close to 50% new material, and 10k longer. I didn't change two major parts that she suggested I look at - they were things that defined my book, so I tried to create a better way of delivering those aspects rather than cutting them altogether. Now I'm second guessing myself.
*Sigh.*
Any help/suggestions/telling me to snap out of it would be good right now.
Carla
So five or six weeks ago an agent asked me to rework my manuscript. I have spent that time working my butt off, and now have the finished product (bar a final edit).
I am too terrified to send it back! It wasn't like when I sent out the original manuscript - it was my first attempt at a novel, I thought I would have a punt and see if anyone took a bite. Now I have an agent who wants the damn thing, but ONLY IF I GET IT RIGHT! If she rejects it, I'll know I was so close, that it was within my grasp. Hell, I can almost taste that contract now...
I worked and re-worked this thing, chopped it up, pieced it back together, hacked it apart again... But when do I know it's right? Surely I should know? Or is it like a painting - maybe just one more brush stroke?
I made perhaps 75% of the changes she suggested, and I reckon it is close to 50% new material, and 10k longer. I didn't change two major parts that she suggested I look at - they were things that defined my book, so I tried to create a better way of delivering those aspects rather than cutting them altogether. Now I'm second guessing myself.
*Sigh.*
Any help/suggestions/telling me to snap out of it would be good right now.
Carla