tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2488887316391780144.post346566395755542063..comments2024-03-29T07:43:01.003+00:00Comments on Help! I Need a Publisher!: DOES YOUR MS TICK THESE BOXES?Nicola Morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12189894289540344094noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2488887316391780144.post-13301292747185679012011-03-23T14:57:05.757+00:002011-03-23T14:57:05.757+00:00A really useful (and generous) checklist.A really useful (and generous) checklist.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2488887316391780144.post-81876666102087186922011-03-23T10:24:54.066+00:002011-03-23T10:24:54.066+00:00The two biggies for me from this list are:
'Do...The two biggies for me from this list are:<br />'Do we care about the MC? Why?'<br />and<br />'Credibility of central premise / of characters' motivation'<br />- because here I stumble into the issue of objectivity. When I'm reading someone else's work, problems with empathy and credibility stand out a mile; in my own writing spotting exactly what's wrong (and HelenOnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2488887316391780144.post-3770380152550658122011-03-22T18:38:05.911+00:002011-03-22T18:38:05.911+00:00In my editing role (non-fiction) I come across the...In my editing role (non-fiction) I come across these three of your points so often: wrong order in sentence, clunky sentences, monotonous sentence structure. If we get rid of these in editing of our fiction we'll be well on the way!<br />I would so have liked to come to your workshop tonight (and help carry your crabbit bags down the street?!) but it falls on a long long hard day at school Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2488887316391780144.post-62286410543965933912011-03-22T17:55:57.950+00:002011-03-22T17:55:57.950+00:00Nicola thanks for another great post.
I start wit...Nicola thanks for another great post. <br />I start with an idea that bubbles along in my head for a long time before I start putting pen to paper (or more likely fingers to keyboard). <br />I then roughly plan my outline and characters. So in this phase I'm covering your initial core questions. <br />Once I start writing then everything else goes out the window. For me those points you Shaunahttp://www.shaunabickley.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2488887316391780144.post-82843015631058094102011-03-22T15:44:41.565+00:002011-03-22T15:44:41.565+00:00Fabulous check list! Good to keep these things in ...Fabulous check list! Good to keep these things in mind so you at least know the rules of the market.<br /><br /><a href="http://fromsarahwithjoy.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">Sarah Allen<br />(my creative writing blog)</a>Sarah Allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01185278849400551014noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2488887316391780144.post-43432704457507719332011-03-22T14:52:56.672+00:002011-03-22T14:52:56.672+00:00Your post sums up what I need to watch for while d...Your post sums up what I need to watch for while doing my revisions. It's timely for me. Thanks.Scooter Carlylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06193754150220063430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2488887316391780144.post-78354854458537713112011-03-22T12:07:29.322+00:002011-03-22T12:07:29.322+00:00I spent the first half of this thinking "yes,...I spent the first half of this thinking "yes, yes, but what does that actually *mean*, concretely?" and then I realise that in the second bit, the language bullet points, you tell us. Marvellous. There are so many articles about whcih tell us the former, but unless they include the detail of the latter they're useless. Thank heavens for soeone who actually does the detailDan Hollowayhttp://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Company-of-Fellows/dp/B004PLMHYC/ref=pd_rhf_p_t_2noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2488887316391780144.post-61103757864965390182011-03-22T10:38:03.068+00:002011-03-22T10:38:03.068+00:00This is all good stuff — and yet, faintly disheart...This is all good stuff — and yet, faintly disheartening as I run my eyes over my latest batch of edits.<br /><br />Like Emma, I think there has to be a certain stance taken to tickable boxes of wisdom in order that they may help us.<br /><br />Trying to hold all wealths of good advice in one's head all at the same time is apt to foster paralysis. On the flip side, ignorance of any technique Whirlochrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09846196906206886945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2488887316391780144.post-49439231656337580132011-03-22T10:27:40.699+00:002011-03-22T10:27:40.699+00:00Many thanks for the link, Nicola!
Cat, I'd su...Many thanks for the link, Nicola!<br /><br />Cat, I'd suggest that it's just as useful - and suits many writers better - to use questions like these AFTER you've written the novel, or half-way through when it's run into the sand and you don't know quite why, and certainly don't know how to get out of it. <br /><br />Yes, you do have to face the possibility that you'll Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2488887316391780144.post-41053915082442837222011-03-22T10:20:15.297+00:002011-03-22T10:20:15.297+00:00I'm one of the lucky dozen who'll be getti...I'm one of the lucky dozen who'll be getting to answer back on all of this tonight and I'm REALLY looking forward to it (and not just because of the chocolate).<br /><br />See you there!M Louise Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13165271083632185438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2488887316391780144.post-55371765435949987682011-03-22T09:47:25.230+00:002011-03-22T09:47:25.230+00:00The first time I wrote something I just sat down a...The first time I wrote something I just sat down and wrote it. I worried about all those things afterwards - if I worried about them at all. I have gone on the same way ever since - it is not a tidy arrangement of cat hairs but, if I ask the questions afterwards, I seem to come up with acceptable answers. I am not sure it should work like this. <br />I wonder if real writers are terribly well catdownunderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06959328192182156574noreply@blogger.com