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Originally Posted by Meadowhawk  What type of mss is it, Susan? What genre? |
Hi,
How are you? Hope things are going well.
It is 97,000 word supernatural historical thriller. Does that make sense?
The story begins on the western front, Passchendaele 1917 with an officer caught on the wire in a shell hole, listening to two men in the front trench, some yards away talking about another officer.
The style for the first section set in France does have a distinctive
rhythm/word use which eases away as the main character begins to interact with the world around him. I based it on the style used by many first world war poets for their longer pieces. I thought it captured the confusion and horror, without going into tonnes of descriptive info dump.
I feel it is one of the best things I have written so far, but then I am a bit blinkered with this one, far more than anything else I have written.
Troo and Ian, I have swapped round the sections I mentioned and sent it off to two agents, wanting just short samples, today. I will consider doing it for the next batch of major ones.(Three chapter snail mail ones) I tend not to hurry, still have a few outstanding snail mail ones + email ones with sample chapters and email queries. Until these clear, (Or three months pass on the email queries) I don't plan to send out any more.
It's just the comments seem to be polarised, even my test readers either loved it or hated the beginning. (Thankfully they all liked the rest of the story lol) And I am swinging from the idea of one draft to another, which I don't like. I prefer to have one version of said novel to peddle.