Oh, it's been a week or two the past couple of days. Busy. Wildly, insanely busy at my day job (which is better than bored), plus I'm scrambling to finish my book so I can enter it in RWA's GOLDEN HEART contest. The chromos' school-related stuff is ramping up, along with Y-Chromo's college quest. X-Chromo has bonded with the drama club, plus she has use of a fancy-schmancy digital camera for one of her art classes, so she's driving everyone crazy completing her assignments.
Most of my crit partners had bad news this week: this one's line folded; that one's editor wants major revisions; still another has run into a SNAFU with her international adoption. On Thursday night, after a rocky day at work, I came home to an e-mail from my agent: my submission status report. It was my turn for bad news. SIX rejections. Or as we call them in my local RWA chapter, 6 BLACK ROSES.
Whoa.
The thing that bothers me the most is the preponderance of comments about my voice, which in the past has always been my strong suit. I sometimes wonder if I polish my voice out of my stories when I try to address concerns raised by contest judges and other beta-type readers.
I can't let these rejections dilute my excitement about my current book.
Right now, I need to concentrate on finishing it. I'm already thinking about how to revise it, now that I know more about the characters and the story. I'm looking forward to making it a better book.
But the most amazing thing -- to me -- is how much of the story was in chapter one, and I didn't even know it. All the things my heroine needs are right there. And another character, a secondary character about whom I'd like to write in the future, revealed his whole motivation to me in a single sentence he said to another character. It blew me away.
I have no clue how this happened. But it happens ALL the time. I've heard other writers say the same thing. In fact, Joan Didion once wrote, "I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear."
To which I can only say, "Yes."
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