cathschaffstump | Writing, and Finding Out More about YA (Reply)

Some new reading reveals that most YA novels are 40K to 60K, so I've reduced the number I'm shooting for to 80K, and I'll hope to shorten it more to a conventional length. Please note that the patchwork stuff I put together tonight is NOT real writing. It's about 4 scenes and some notes about what I need to do to make this all smooth. Some of it will be chopped out, but mostly it will be added to.

I've decided chapter 3 is where we deal with humanizing Isolde, Atreus (yeah, like that's going to happen), and the opposition forces. Writing chapter three will take me a while longer than the preface, chapter one, and chapter two.

I didn't work on it more than a half an hour tonight. Bryon was kind enough to read what I have so far, and help me with stupid corrections, and since there were already 78 pages, that took a while. Meanwhile, I got my first agent query already to go when this is ready. Yup, did my homework for that one.

Here's what we did tonight: