Writing: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Traditor. It's continuing mission: to explore strange new words, to seek out new plots, and new characterizations, to boldly go where no tale has gone before!
Aloha once again, fearless readers. I figure it's been long enough that I probably owe you another blog post, and so here we are.
If I blog less now than I did when I got started it's probably because not as much changes when you're editing. Yes, I might change some words, cut out an extra paragraph here and there, or even tweak an entire character, but it's nowhere near as exciting as discovering a new twist as you're writing, or finally getting to put down a long-planned plot point. Editing's just...editing.
That being said, I did realize that an upcoming scene needs to be completely re-written. First I'm gonna hack out about half of the time that Bryn & Mer spend at Dissenter HQ, and then I'm changing their flight into the wilderness so that Mer has a much more active role. Right now both she and Bryn are a little passive, but with a few tweaks Mer'll be able to show a glimpse of the strong, active character she will turn out to be.
As for the publishing front, pretty much everything's the same there, too. I have just over 3 weeks until I'm supposed to hear back from the agent I solicited. I've started checking my email several times a day in hopes of a letter from them, even though I know that if they wanted me they would've probably already made contact.
I may start prepping a submission package for another agent, just in case. I'm actually allowed to submit to multiple agents according to the first agent's guidelines, but I thought that, at least for the first time I send it out, I'd rather give it to them exclusively.
(Probably a terrible decision, and a waste of time, but so it goes)
Anyway, I just wanted to jot off a quick post...I've got 20 minutes left of my lunch break and I think I'll use it to keep on chipping away at Traditor.
Aloha!
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