quick update on things writingish
Querying: Just so you know that occasionally I actually do things when I say I'm going to, I did begin sending out query letters after my last post. I am mostly still waiting impatiently for responses.
The Overworld: Feedback from a few of my brilliant and insightful friends was quicker to arrive, and now I know about some big things still wrong with the manuscript. Many things are right, yes, but there remain problems to solve, which I am extremely grateful to know about. So thanks, guys. I'm giving the novel a bit of a break while I reflect, gather more feedback, and see what develops.
The Extent of the Damage: More commonly known as "the earthquake novel", this was my 2007 NaNo novel about three generations of dysfunction in the Santa Clara Valley. For a few months, I've been turning my obsessive thought processes to revision plans for this manuscript, but I had not actually looked at the text since I finished writing it more than a year ago. Last week, I finally read through the thing, and I'm pleased to report that it doesn't suck. It's actually pretty decent, considering it's a first draft. It also is pretty close to how I remembered it, though there were a few surprises, plus a bunch of funny lines that made me laugh out loud. (Yes, hello, I'm the dork sitting at my desk LOLing at my own writing. Because if I don't, who will?) Now some more research, then some planning, and then we'll see what happens with this.
The Overworld: Feedback from a few of my brilliant and insightful friends was quicker to arrive, and now I know about some big things still wrong with the manuscript. Many things are right, yes, but there remain problems to solve, which I am extremely grateful to know about. So thanks, guys. I'm giving the novel a bit of a break while I reflect, gather more feedback, and see what develops.
The Extent of the Damage: More commonly known as "the earthquake novel", this was my 2007 NaNo novel about three generations of dysfunction in the Santa Clara Valley. For a few months, I've been turning my obsessive thought processes to revision plans for this manuscript, but I had not actually looked at the text since I finished writing it more than a year ago. Last week, I finally read through the thing, and I'm pleased to report that it doesn't suck. It's actually pretty decent, considering it's a first draft. It also is pretty close to how I remembered it, though there were a few surprises, plus a bunch of funny lines that made me laugh out loud. (Yes, hello, I'm the dork sitting at my desk LOLing at my own writing. Because if I don't, who will?) Now some more research, then some planning, and then we'll see what happens with this.