The agent mentioned in my previous post decided not to accept me as an author. She listed several reasons, one being she couldn't identify with the characters. I posted the first 2,000 at www.youwriteon.com and received a lot of comments about my pacing on top of not quite believing anyone would act like the main character does in the first chapter. Maybe my desire to point out that my character is NOT normal is interfering with people identifying with her. So now the biggest issue is how do I make someone who has extra-ordinary reactions from birth into a regular person.
As far as my pacing goes, I'm at all loss. Despite all my research, I guess that's just not something I'm attuned to. Or maybe I'm off balance from the rest of the world. Either way, my attempts to rectify the problem feel more like me banging my head against a concrete wall.
For now, I've decided to continue writing for myself and give up on publication in novel format - just for now. Until I understand pacing, I may just collect a bunch of rejection letters when I could focus on original creation instead. The epiphany will hit me one day. Then I will re-edit everything so the pacing is acceptable to a mass market and try again.
On a great note, my short story Decisions has been accepted for publication in the 2011 Jubilee Anthology. Short stories is NOT an area I will be abandoning publication in because the markets seem to enjoy those. Now if I could only do a better job of matching my stories with magazines!
You should totally blog more!
ReplyDeleteThanks! Off to add a new one now. LOL
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