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Originally Posted by SJAB Take a good hard look at this line. File the editor's name away. Your writing style has caught someone's interest. No mean feat at all, you should be pleased as punch about it. Yes, this novel didn't catch them, but the next one??? |
Don't misunderstand this email made my day! I was grinning from ear to ear! It might not be an acceptance but it's great to know it wouldn't be an impossible feat to think one day I might actually publish if I can beef up my story.
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Originally Posted by Teresa Edgerton (You might want to think about the fact that you don't have any trouble accepting that he/she could reach all those favorable conclusions from three chapters and a synopsis; it's just the negatives you doubt.) |
Well of course. I want my writing (and submissions) to be the best I can possibly make them so it's logical that the negative's are what I should work on more than any strong points so I can be a better all round writer. And it's not that I doubt the negative points, I understand what they're saying, I just wondered how I could've explained more of a complex story on one page. But it's true what you say about the synopsis, I'll have to re-read it (after distancing myself from it for a while I think) and try and bring in more complexity without losing readability or adding to the size... somehow.
Thanks for the advice... now to get back to writing.