Time to get serious!

Delanee · Apr 27, 2013

I have spent months floating in a sea of "I'm not motivated to write."

Now that the sun has finally come out and summer looms large, I need to get my act together and work on my manuscript.

I am editing a YA fantasy novel to make it MG. I was once told I had a MG "voice" and want to see how this works. Cross your fingers!

If anyone has experience with MG and wants to read though some things for me, let me know!

Delanee

PorterStarrByrd · Apr 27, 2013

Welcome aboard

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DB Curtiss · Apr 27, 2013

Greetings and good luck with your project.

regdog · Apr 27, 2013

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muse · Apr 27, 2013

Hi, and welcome. :welcome:

Good luck with the editing.

KellyAssauer · Apr 27, 2013

Hi Delanee!

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schrang41 · Apr 27, 2013

Welcome to the forums!

Griffin Hayes · Apr 27, 2013

Welcome to AW!

L. Y. · Apr 27, 2013

Welcome to the Water Cooler!

:welcome:

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tinker · Apr 27, 2013

Welcome to AW, Delanee!
Good luck editing your novel and see you in the forum.
:welcome:

rwm4768 · Apr 27, 2013

Welcome. Good luck with your MG fantasy (from a fellow writer of MG and YA fantasy--I have a huge series planned that goes from MG to YA, and possibly even a little past YA).

cooeedownunder · Apr 28, 2013

Isabel is faced with only one choice — fight her way out of the rookery of St Giles with her wit and beauty and somehow follow the ship that sent her mother to the sunburned convict land of Australia, or else die too young after a short life of wretchedness.

At the height of the convict transportation to Australia, an unseen boundary separates the poor from the rich. Isabel’s stunning beauty and strong will attract the attention of a wealthy man, but the upper classes have their own secrets, secrets entwined with hers. Daily, she has learned hard lessons on the mean streets of London, but they can’t teach her fast enough about the treachery of the wealthy. She must navigate both the gardens of the upper class and back alleys of the downtrodden in two continents. And she will, or die trying to find her mother.

jvc · Apr 28, 2013

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Jim Riley · Apr 28, 2013

Welcome,
Jim

Rockweaver · Apr 29, 2013

welcome to the cooler

Time to get serious!

Delanee

PorterStarrByrd

nutruring tomorrows criminals today

thehairymob

If I had a brain I'd still be dumb

MadelineButterfly

Lost my muse in a poker game.

DB Curtiss

regdog

The Scavengers

muse

standing on head, typing one-handed...

KellyAssauer

The Anti-Magdalene

schrang41

Griffin Hayes

One evil little baby step at a time

L. Y.

Thread surfer and virtual bartender

tinker

Winging it!

rwm4768

practical experience, FTW

cooeedownunder

Grateful for the day

jvc

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Jim Riley

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Rockweaver