Writing, and Finding Out More about YA
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cathschaffstumpSome 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:
Wow, it looks more impressive. Less #K=more impressive!
No writing tomorrow. Wedding tomorrow.
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:
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20,496 / 80,000 (25.6%) |
Wow, it looks more impressive. Less #K=more impressive!
No writing tomorrow. Wedding tomorrow.
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Date: 2007-07-01 02:51 am (UTC)However, my trip to a bookstore today was heartening. MANY adults in the YA section, indeed. I agree that the cross over is the best bet, but I don't know where to put that in the bookstore.
We'll try for a more modest offering. I feel your pain, though, because there's a lot of Klarion material, and I'm not sure what to put in the first book. I think the first two trials, but more? And how to end it so it seems like an end, rather than just a place to stop before the next book?
These are the questions that keep us going!
Also this question: when you're ready for readers for Animal Control, would you consider me?
Catherine