Do a Little Dance...
I can't stop moving my feet. The cats look at me like I and music choice are crazy. But I DID just spend 6 nights in a row up til 1 .am. at least and then getting only 5-6 hours (for a 23-year-old who really just never stopped looking/feeling/ acting 18, that is NOT enough).
I sent a really good first draft to my mentor today, I even managed to quickly plug in nascent drafts of new scenes/paragraphs that addressed issues brought up by the beyond430 readers.
I have very clear ideas about where M. is going and when, so I'm not panicking at the thought of not knowing what to do the next month.
Let's just hope the mentor gets as absorbed and into it as I did and thinks there's some special writing going on. Cuz there is. :)
But I wonder. Since I couldn't remove myself from the story, I didn't see the holes. That's why there's readers, yes, but what if I had sent off a very polished draft with clear ideas about where it was going, great voice...would an editor see that ms as good, BUT...and then reject me and I not know that holes fixed by choosing different words/lines/dialogue here and there could have made it perfect? Just how different from the published version are the initial mss. that were accepted under contract? It'd be really interesting to see. My biggest hang-up is not being able to imagine(!) how different the text could look and that I would have changed it that much. And not wanting it to.
I sent a really good first draft to my mentor today, I even managed to quickly plug in nascent drafts of new scenes/paragraphs that addressed issues brought up by the beyond430 readers.
I have very clear ideas about where M. is going and when, so I'm not panicking at the thought of not knowing what to do the next month.
Let's just hope the mentor gets as absorbed and into it as I did and thinks there's some special writing going on. Cuz there is. :)
But I wonder. Since I couldn't remove myself from the story, I didn't see the holes. That's why there's readers, yes, but what if I had sent off a very polished draft with clear ideas about where it was going, great voice...would an editor see that ms as good, BUT...and then reject me and I not know that holes fixed by choosing different words/lines/dialogue here and there could have made it perfect? Just how different from the published version are the initial mss. that were accepted under contract? It'd be really interesting to see. My biggest hang-up is not being able to imagine(!) how different the text could look and that I would have changed it that much. And not wanting it to.