I sent four openings to Evil Editor. I blame ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
buffysquirrel for this. Well, I sent in one opening that I has been fussing over, noticed the queue was empty and mentioned that I had some more I was working on. "Send them all" says EE, so I did.
Not that I am working on 4 different things at once. Nope. There are another two openings that weren't ready to show anyone.
There is the seal story. That is supposed to be waiting its turn, but I worked out how I'm going to deal with it. I just have to convince the MC to play along. So I took it out and looked at it. I frowned at the opening paragraphs. Deleted things. Moved things around. Added new things. And ended up with exactly what I started with. Obviously it requires external input.
There is my sentient pirate ship story, which I did the submission thing with and then put aside, but after a comment by an agent (This is interesting but too long) I pulled it out, frowned at the writing (pedestrian is the nicest way to describe it) and sat down to rewrite it. At the rate of one page a week it seems. I think it's worthwhile going back to though because it was getting nibbles so with decent writing...
There is my little ex-master thief story, which I have been dutifully sending out to places without much luck. If the query letter doesn't work, it's a problem with the query letter. OK. OK. But I decided I didn't like the opening so I just deleted the first scene. I don't think that's the best way to come up with a new opening though.
There is the one I don't talk about much that is officially finished and I should be submitting (if I can get a query letter put together) but I'm really not sure that is a good idea, so I'm rewriting the first page. Again.
There is the thing I am supposed to be working on, that comes with the working title of Jack & Ally. That actually has two openings. One of which might end up as a prologue and the other will be the "real" opening. Neither of which I like. One of which I spent todayfrowning over rewriting.
6 openings. 5 WIPs.
buffysquirrel for this. Well, I sent in one opening that I has been fussing over, noticed the queue was empty and mentioned that I had some more I was working on. "Send them all" says EE, so I did. Not that I am working on 4 different things at once. Nope. There are another two openings that weren't ready to show anyone.
There is the seal story. That is supposed to be waiting its turn, but I worked out how I'm going to deal with it. I just have to convince the MC to play along. So I took it out and looked at it. I frowned at the opening paragraphs. Deleted things. Moved things around. Added new things. And ended up with exactly what I started with. Obviously it requires external input.
There is my sentient pirate ship story, which I did the submission thing with and then put aside, but after a comment by an agent (This is interesting but too long) I pulled it out, frowned at the writing (pedestrian is the nicest way to describe it) and sat down to rewrite it. At the rate of one page a week it seems. I think it's worthwhile going back to though because it was getting nibbles so with decent writing...
There is my little ex-master thief story, which I have been dutifully sending out to places without much luck. If the query letter doesn't work, it's a problem with the query letter. OK. OK. But I decided I didn't like the opening so I just deleted the first scene. I don't think that's the best way to come up with a new opening though.
There is the one I don't talk about much that is officially finished and I should be submitting (if I can get a query letter put together) but I'm really not sure that is a good idea, so I'm rewriting the first page. Again.
There is the thing I am supposed to be working on, that comes with the working title of Jack & Ally. That actually has two openings. One of which might end up as a prologue and the other will be the "real" opening. Neither of which I like. One of which I spent today
6 openings. 5 WIPs.
