I haven't gotten my manuscript from Jeremy. I'm still a bit worried about that, but he
didn't work today for me to ask him about it.
Mr. Huey says I need to work on characterization and the
setting for the first chapter, despite many people saying I don't need to
describe the coffee shop in detail.
It's one of the wonderful things about writing. There's not a right answer in this situation
and I don't know where to go with it, but he gave me something to think
about. I think my target audience won't
need description and other audiences will.
Maybe it's best to wait until I have an agent or publisher to make any
changes – or rather revert to sections of a previous version with description.
Raven seemed to like what I had for her today. I gave her a present. Due to her lack of knowledge in formatting
and her poor spelling skills, I typed up all her current work on her novel
during the week, printed it out yesterday, and wrote my comments there. Today, I transferred it to her
computer. My advice was to first finish
her rewrites on the original draft, then to look at my comments and incorporate
them. I also told her to take one big
comment at a time so she's not overwhelmed.
When a friend of mine from college saw the first page, he made the sign
of the cross at her and blessed her.
It's like I told both of them: I wouldn't have put so much work into her
novel if I didn't think it was worth investing in. She's got two weeks before I'm back at Books. I hope she makes good progress. She also asked me to look at a sort of short
story and make comments.
I like this new social thing I have going on. Well, at least on Saturdays.
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