- Joined
- Jul 11, 2006
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- 673
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- 343
- Location
- In my head where the voices know me.
- Website
- www.sharppenediting.com
If you've frequented R & D over the past two years, you might be familiar with my tale: no requests for many months followed by some requests, rewrites and more rewrites, lots and lots of requests, and finally, universal rejection.
And then last month, I gave up on writing as well as the novel. I received some wonderful advice and support on this board. (Thank you).
Here's the follow-up: A heart-to-heart with some friends, as well as a sobering dialogue with the agent who prompted this writerly soul-searching, brought my fight back.
The premise and certain elements of my novel were widely praised by agents, despite all the rejections. So what I'm doing is staying close to the original premise, taking the "good parts," and writing a new novel, from page 1, with completely different execution. Out with the bad, in with the good.
I withdrew the other version from all the agents still reading; everyone one of them agreed to look at the new work. ELEVEN agents.
Once this work is completed and shipped off to those agents, I'll resume the "real" #2 WIP I'd already begun. (Plus, I have big plans to buy a Wii when I finish this version. Yay for distractions!)
I'm paranoid (of course) that I'll fail yet again, but I'm excited all the same.
And then last month, I gave up on writing as well as the novel. I received some wonderful advice and support on this board. (Thank you).
Here's the follow-up: A heart-to-heart with some friends, as well as a sobering dialogue with the agent who prompted this writerly soul-searching, brought my fight back.
The premise and certain elements of my novel were widely praised by agents, despite all the rejections. So what I'm doing is staying close to the original premise, taking the "good parts," and writing a new novel, from page 1, with completely different execution. Out with the bad, in with the good.
I withdrew the other version from all the agents still reading; everyone one of them agreed to look at the new work. ELEVEN agents.
Once this work is completed and shipped off to those agents, I'll resume the "real" #2 WIP I'd already begun. (Plus, I have big plans to buy a Wii when I finish this version. Yay for distractions!)
I'm paranoid (of course) that I'll fail yet again, but I'm excited all the same.
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