Comments on: When you get published….. http://www.lynnrayeharris.com/2008/02/28/when-you-get-published/ Author of Glamorous, Sexy Romance Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:50:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Lynn Raye Harris http://www.lynnrayeharris.com/2008/02/28/when-you-get-published/comment-page-1/#comment-1371 Lynn Raye Harris Wed, 05 Mar 2008 23:53:00 +0000 http://authorlynnrayeharris.wordpress.com/2008/02/28/when-you-get-published/#comment-1371 Oh, I love what you've both said! <br/><br/>Amie, too true: when in doubt, switch POV. How many times have I gotten unstuck doing this? I don't know, but I know I still resist when I've just got it fixed in my head that things should be a certain way. But you gotta take the plunge, right? I think our instincts are better than we sometimes give them credit for. I'll second guess myself all day, then finally give in and realize that my internal editor was right. Ha!<br/><br/>Carol, I think it's AWESOME you are rewriting that first mss for an editor. My first is buried. Deep. Never to come out again, LOL. <br/><br/>I guess part of the reason I keep working on this one is because I've got the series in mind too. And I have the next two books planned, though they could stand alone. But I love the idea of a progression through this world of mine. :) Oh, I love what you’ve both said!

Amie, too true: when in doubt, switch POV. How many times have I gotten unstuck doing this? I don’t know, but I know I still resist when I’ve just got it fixed in my head that things should be a certain way. But you gotta take the plunge, right? I think our instincts are better than we sometimes give them credit for. I’ll second guess myself all day, then finally give in and realize that my internal editor was right. Ha!

Carol, I think it’s AWESOME you are rewriting that first mss for an editor. My first is buried. Deep. Never to come out again, LOL.

I guess part of the reason I keep working on this one is because I’ve got the series in mind too. And I have the next two books planned, though they could stand alone. But I love the idea of a progression through this world of mine. :)

]]> By: Carol Burnside http://www.lynnrayeharris.com/2008/02/28/when-you-get-published/comment-page-1/#comment-1370 Carol Burnside Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:36:00 +0000 http://authorlynnrayeharris.wordpress.com/2008/02/28/when-you-get-published/#comment-1370 I saw 2 telling comments:<br/><i>My choices are better.</i> and <i>I'm moving forward.</i><br/><br/>Both show significant growth, IMO. <br/>I know I can write more than one book a year. Of course, I'm talking category length, but that's what I'm targeting. As for rewrites, I wrote my first manuscript in 2003. I played with it some in the interim, but really re-wrote it significantly in 2006 due to a full request. Now I've gotten a letter requesting revisions and have just finished those. <br/><br/>Mind you, I've written other books in-between, but I just couldn't give up on that 1st book because I loved the characters and wanted to do a 3-bk series with the heroine's siblings. Okay, maybe my stubbornness had a factor in there too. ;) Book 2 is now in the polishing stage and I've started Book 3. <br/><br/>Somewhere in that process, I felt the same as you do - that I was making better choices and moving forward with my writing. Onward and upward! I saw 2 telling comments:
My choices are better. and I’m moving forward.

Both show significant growth, IMO.
I know I can write more than one book a year. Of course, I’m talking category length, but that’s what I’m targeting. As for rewrites, I wrote my first manuscript in 2003. I played with it some in the interim, but really re-wrote it significantly in 2006 due to a full request. Now I’ve gotten a letter requesting revisions and have just finished those.

Mind you, I’ve written other books in-between, but I just couldn’t give up on that 1st book because I loved the characters and wanted to do a 3-bk series with the heroine’s siblings. Okay, maybe my stubbornness had a factor in there too. ;) Book 2 is now in the polishing stage and I’ve started Book 3.

Somewhere in that process, I felt the same as you do – that I was making better choices and moving forward with my writing. Onward and upward!

]]> By: Amie Stuart http://www.lynnrayeharris.com/2008/02/28/when-you-get-published/comment-page-1/#comment-1369 Amie Stuart Wed, 05 Mar 2008 17:14:00 +0000 http://authorlynnrayeharris.wordpress.com/2008/02/28/when-you-get-published/#comment-1369 >>My choices are better. <br/><br/>This is SUCH a telling sentence! Spot on. <br/><br/>I dont KNOW how many rewrites I can do. I'm still rewriting my first manuscript--I think I'm on version 3.5 or 4.2...not sure. There are things about both versions I like but I haven't quite decided if it's a case of words that fit or loving my words. It's marinating while I finish another book. <br/><br/>Most important lesson learned after sitting around trying to write for two weeks? When in doubt, switch POV<br/><br/>*does the I coulda had a V-8 headhit* >>My choices are better.

This is SUCH a telling sentence! Spot on.

I dont KNOW how many rewrites I can do. I’m still rewriting my first manuscript–I think I’m on version 3.5 or 4.2…not sure. There are things about both versions I like but I haven’t quite decided if it’s a case of words that fit or loving my words. It’s marinating while I finish another book.

Most important lesson learned after sitting around trying to write for two weeks? When in doubt, switch POV

*does the I coulda had a V-8 headhit*

]]> By: Lynn Raye Harris http://www.lynnrayeharris.com/2008/02/28/when-you-get-published/comment-page-1/#comment-1368 Lynn Raye Harris Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:25:00 +0000 http://authorlynnrayeharris.wordpress.com/2008/02/28/when-you-get-published/#comment-1368 Hey, Dee! Hope your trip to Hawaii was good. :) The writers' week event sounds like fun -- as well as useful. :) Thanks for sharing what you've learned! Hey, Dee! Hope your trip to Hawaii was good. :) The writers’ week event sounds like fun — as well as useful. :) Thanks for sharing what you’ve learned!

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.lynnrayeharris.com/2008/02/28/when-you-get-published/comment-page-1/#comment-1367 Anonymous Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:26:00 +0000 http://authorlynnrayeharris.wordpress.com/2008/02/28/when-you-get-published/#comment-1367 Aloha, Lynn,<br/>This week I'm attending the University of North Carolina at Wilmington's Writers Week. If anyone is in the area, this is an annual event, it brings it great people and it is free to the public. <br/>I posted short daily notes on it at my blog (www.deebuckingham.blogspot.com)<br/><br/>You ask what lessons I've learned lately? I have learned LOTS of lessons this week. <br/>I learned that I'm not a poet, I like the journalism/non-fiction writers, I can sit through a two-hour lecture (this was a biggie). I accept that fact that I am too old to discuss "killing" the pure spirit of something by naming it. When I go to the grocery store I need to put chicken on the list, to name it, label it, bring it home, and kill it in boiling water or searing oil, but naming it is the first step.<br/><br/>Ah, I'm getting to be such a cyncic. <br/>Dee Aloha, Lynn,
This week I’m attending the University of North Carolina at Wilmington’s Writers Week. If anyone is in the area, this is an annual event, it brings it great people and it is free to the public.
I posted short daily notes on it at my blog (www.deebuckingham.blogspot.com)

You ask what lessons I’ve learned lately? I have learned LOTS of lessons this week.
I learned that I’m not a poet, I like the journalism/non-fiction writers, I can sit through a two-hour lecture (this was a biggie). I accept that fact that I am too old to discuss “killing” the pure spirit of something by naming it. When I go to the grocery store I need to put chicken on the list, to name it, label it, bring it home, and kill it in boiling water or searing oil, but naming it is the first step.

Ah, I’m getting to be such a cyncic.
Dee

]]> By: Lynn Raye Harris http://www.lynnrayeharris.com/2008/02/28/when-you-get-published/comment-page-1/#comment-1366 Lynn Raye Harris Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:01:00 +0000 http://authorlynnrayeharris.wordpress.com/2008/02/28/when-you-get-published/#comment-1366 Ay-yi-yi! I do suppose I shouldn't prevaricate so much about finishing my revisions. I've made changes that pretty much require the trashing of about 80 pages, and I've been kind of mopey about that. One big change reverberates throughout the book and requires some rethinking of the climax. <br/><br/>Hugs on that chop. It's a big one, but you have a roadmap from the editor. That's a golden letter, baby. :) Ay-yi-yi! I do suppose I shouldn’t prevaricate so much about finishing my revisions. I’ve made changes that pretty much require the trashing of about 80 pages, and I’ve been kind of mopey about that. One big change reverberates throughout the book and requires some rethinking of the climax.

Hugs on that chop. It’s a big one, but you have a roadmap from the editor. That’s a golden letter, baby. :)

]]> By: Problem Child http://www.lynnrayeharris.com/2008/02/28/when-you-get-published/comment-page-1/#comment-1365 Problem Child Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:55:00 +0000 http://authorlynnrayeharris.wordpress.com/2008/02/28/when-you-get-published/#comment-1365 The first cut is the deepest, darlin' I cut everything the editor didn't like from my book before I started the revising. That was everything from Chapter 5 on. My 56k book became 18.5k in two keystrokes. I needed to go lie down at that point. <br/><br/>But, the book is already better!<br/><br/>Now, if only I knew what to do next... The first cut is the deepest, darlin’ I cut everything the editor didn’t like from my book before I started the revising. That was everything from Chapter 5 on. My 56k book became 18.5k in two keystrokes. I needed to go lie down at that point.

But, the book is already better!

Now, if only I knew what to do next…

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