This is the situation.
TRF is in a metaphorical drawer; I keep having ideas about returning it to its purer "literary" form, but think this would be a waste of time.
TAG is still in the US - but I have really no hope that either of those agents will take it up.
GATD is in disgrace. There's nothing really wrong with it - or nothing I can work out, but there is a big empty feel about it, and I don't feel the urge to re-write/edit or do whatever is necessary...so I won't submit it again just yet...the advice I have had is (a) Focus, and (b) don't send it out until it's absolutely right.
I am now writing The Malice of Fairies - I wrote a little in November, then left it until now. I have already written 4,800 words this week - so it's up to 22,000 now. I am pretty happy with it, I have almost got the hang of writing novels I think. I have also been editing a bit as I go. I am trying to decide whether I feel so positive about it because it is good, or because it is not GATD or because I am enjoying writing it. I just feel so much better about it than I have about anything...except perhaps TRF - but that was more novelty value.
Looking at this list, I feel it is rather sad that I have all these unpublished novels - how many do I have to have before I finally give up? Or will I just carry on until I get bored, or too gaga to write, or feel such a failure...
In a way things are good because there aren't any books out and under scrutiny - that makes me very happy. Nothing to look forward to, but nothing to dread either.
TRF is in a metaphorical drawer; I keep having ideas about returning it to its purer "literary" form, but think this would be a waste of time.
TAG is still in the US - but I have really no hope that either of those agents will take it up.
GATD is in disgrace. There's nothing really wrong with it - or nothing I can work out, but there is a big empty feel about it, and I don't feel the urge to re-write/edit or do whatever is necessary...so I won't submit it again just yet...the advice I have had is (a) Focus, and (b) don't send it out until it's absolutely right.
I am now writing The Malice of Fairies - I wrote a little in November, then left it until now. I have already written 4,800 words this week - so it's up to 22,000 now. I am pretty happy with it, I have almost got the hang of writing novels I think. I have also been editing a bit as I go. I am trying to decide whether I feel so positive about it because it is good, or because it is not GATD or because I am enjoying writing it. I just feel so much better about it than I have about anything...except perhaps TRF - but that was more novelty value.
Looking at this list, I feel it is rather sad that I have all these unpublished novels - how many do I have to have before I finally give up? Or will I just carry on until I get bored, or too gaga to write, or feel such a failure...
In a way things are good because there aren't any books out and under scrutiny - that makes me very happy. Nothing to look forward to, but nothing to dread either.
