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I feel that things are going quite well. I'm currently
working on Chapter Eight - which is a massive surprise since I've barely had the inspiration to get out and get on my snowmobile since I wrecked it (note to self, get insurance).
This time last
year I was getting block all the time and couldn't concentrate on my novel for
long at all. I don't know if it's just because I feel like I'm so close
to the end that's spurring me on, or if the overdose of positivity is finally
kicking in. In either case I'm not going to complain.
A bit premature, I know, but I 've been working on the query
letter that I'll be submitting to potential agents.
After devouring the
whole of Query Shark's blog I felt inspired to set to work on it
straight away. The way I'm looking at it, is that I'm going to have to
write it at some point and it's going to take a lot of time - with the whole
writing it and leaving it and rewriting it and then leaving it some
more... you get the idea - so why not start it now and keep on improving
it as I'm writing my novel? All the advice I've read says that the query
letter is just as important as the story I'm telling, after all, a bad query
letter will see the greatest of novels go unpublished.
I've reassessed the amount of work that's required before
the second draft is complete. It's actually a lot less than I originally
thought. Bearing in mind that my reason for the second draft was to make
the beginning fit with the end (due to my continuous 'improvements' suddenly
implemented in the later chapters the structure was awful!) and as I work
through the second draft the distance between the beginning and the end is
closing up. At this moment in time I don't feel that the ending needs a
rewrite; as it stands this is really the only part of the novel I'm actually
happy with.
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