I should have said this before now, but thank you both. It helped me to follow my gut and go with third person. I truly appreciate all of the insight given on this message board.
I don't "tweet," mostly because I have this superpower and I don't want the rest of the world to know about it. And that superpower is the ability to write really stupid things that I think are charming and cute only to find out later I'm a huge dork. So, I shall remain anonymous.
How about a round of What Is Everyone Working On, including Any New Developments?
I'll start: I'm in the never-ending editing phase of an Upper MG Fantasy, which is clocking in at about 74k now, and which I'm trying to trim back for submission, hopefully within the next 6 months.
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And Joy, you have 9 fulls out? That's brilliant! Did it go query to partial to full? I hope you get some good news soon.
Hi, Wanderluster, and welcome to AW and the Kidlit section. Good luck with your MS and editing. Oh, editing, how much fun is that? Not.Hello all! I'm brand new to AW, but I've been lurking in the shadows for some time, basking in your collective brilliance.
Hi, Wanderluster, and welcome to AW and the Kidlit section. Good luck with your MS and editing. Oh, editing, how much fun is that? Not.
I'm working on, err, erm, trying to stay warm.
Thank you, jvc and Sheila for the welcomes.
Joy, have you shared any of the MSs that you're subbing in SYW? I am impressed by your professional attitude, calm in the face of rejections (even if they do rave) and sending each of your babies out into the world while moving onto the next one.
Sheila, you are brave, throwing out big chunks of your ms and going back to the whiteboard. Brainstorming and writing certainly are more fun than editing, but depending on how much time you invested in the original work, cutting can really hurt.
Speaking of which, I need a bit of moral support. After reading a harsh but excellent critique of someone else's query letter in SYW, I had a come-to-Jesus moment about my own WIP and I just took the excruciating step of deleting the entire first two chapters of my MS. These are chapters I have loved and slaved over for years.
Tell me I'm doing the right thing. Start when the action starts, right?
Yeah, I'm there.
Joy, have you shared any of the MSs that you're subbing in SYW? I am impressed by your professional attitude, calm in the face of rejections (even if they do rave) and sending each of your babies out into the world while moving onto the next one.