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Thursday, February 11, 2010
Contest for Middle Grade and Young Adult Aithors
I found a great contest for middle grade and young adult authors - and it's FREE! It's called the "Dear Lucky Agent Contest." I love that title, don't you? Check it out.
I plan on entering Moonspell.
Here's the link: http://www.guidetoliteraryagents.com/blog/Dear+Lucky+Agent+Contest+Middle+Grade+And+Young+Adult.aspx
Good luck, everyone!
I plan on entering Moonspell.
Here's the link: http://www.guidetoliteraryagents.com/blog/Dear+Lucky+Agent+Contest+Middle+Grade+And+Young+Adult.aspx
Good luck, everyone!
Welcome to my Blog
Currently, my mind is swirling with so many "thunks" that I'm pulled in several directions. I'm marketing my young adult paranormal novel, Moonspell, while trying to edit my adult mystery, Murder in the Family. But there's those pesky characters from two novels and a short story who keep competing for my time as well.
Does anyone else have that problem? I live with my characters long before they begin to tell me their story. You see, I don't "write" stories, the characters tell me what's happening and I'm just the transcriber. Because no matter how much I try to write something, particularly a work of longer fiction, it never turns out how I imagined it. Oh, sure, I have a vague sense of where to begin, where I want to go and how to get there, but inevitably, my characters will tell me I'm all wet and take the story where THEY want it to go. For example, in Moonspell, up until the final chapters, I thought the killer was James's aunt. Ha! Little did I know who the werewolf really was.
In Murder in the Family, the killer changed three times (my characters seem to enjoy keeping me in the dark!) before I found out who it really was. And that's what's making the editing so challenging. I have to go back and edit in the character more so that everything makes sense. Don't you just hate mysteries where the killer is only in the story a brief amount, a peripheral character so to speak, and when you find out who done it, you as the reader feel cheated? I do, and I vow never to cheat my readers.
So, I edit. And edit. And when that's done, I go back and edit some more! But, I love it. Don't you?
Does anyone else have that problem? I live with my characters long before they begin to tell me their story. You see, I don't "write" stories, the characters tell me what's happening and I'm just the transcriber. Because no matter how much I try to write something, particularly a work of longer fiction, it never turns out how I imagined it. Oh, sure, I have a vague sense of where to begin, where I want to go and how to get there, but inevitably, my characters will tell me I'm all wet and take the story where THEY want it to go. For example, in Moonspell, up until the final chapters, I thought the killer was James's aunt. Ha! Little did I know who the werewolf really was.
In Murder in the Family, the killer changed three times (my characters seem to enjoy keeping me in the dark!) before I found out who it really was. And that's what's making the editing so challenging. I have to go back and edit in the character more so that everything makes sense. Don't you just hate mysteries where the killer is only in the story a brief amount, a peripheral character so to speak, and when you find out who done it, you as the reader feel cheated? I do, and I vow never to cheat my readers.
So, I edit. And edit. And when that's done, I go back and edit some more! But, I love it. Don't you?
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