On the editing front, she sent me the outline for how she's going to edit the manuscript by breaking it into five chapters at a time. she sent me an editorial letter of the first five chapters and the feedback was good so far: the second half of the email goes into things I can improve upon like sentence variation, redundancy, and compound adjectives. I've know for years that my sentence structure can be awkward and clunky, so I'll try to clean that up. She should be done by the end of September. Hope the rest of the edit goes this well.
That's pretty cool dude! Speaking as an editor, I've always wondered why some of us don't come across as complimentary at all when we're providing feedback. I always try to be enthusiastic and provide plenty of genuine praise along with whatever suggestions/edits I'm giving, but sometimes I've seen editorial feedback and it's kind of snippy/blunt and doesn't give the writer the impression that the editor liked the book in any regard. Which seems just kinda unfortunate for everyone involved. But seems like this editor is super into the book (as she should be!) and is advocating for it, which is really great.
For some reason I’ve been feeling really compelled to write poetry. Or I guess more like prose. I’ve never done that before I don’t even know how to get started
I am! Not as part of the official organization anymore haha, but then, that never meant much. not sure what exactly yet though. Was originally planning to start a new project, but I’ve got a couple things still in the works that it might be better to finish with those 50k
Still trying to figure out if I should ever try writing fiction again, and NaNo always makes me think about that more.
Dude your book was great. certainly better than Mourn Not The Mortals lol jk For real I thought it was really good and definitely want to see more fiction from you.
take that creative spark and run with it. don't let fear or uncertainty stop you from trying something you want to do!
Yeah, even doing a short story would be good... Something which I'm going to consider doing. I kind of stalled/got stuck on my picture book (didn't know where to take the story/end it) so I'm probably going to work on a creepypasta thing first and the story basis will be a realistic fiction inspired by services like DoorDash and UberEats I think.
hell yeah (not official NaNo but still). my next is a multigenerational story and I've got a little over 50 pages drafted from about 1.5-2 years ago. I've outlined chronological timelines for all four of my main characters and I'd like to squeeze in some writing time every day if I can.