A Fresh Set of Eyes
So it's been just over a week since I received the manuscript assessment report back from Brian Keaney of the Writer's Workshop . He told me, in his report, that he thought I would find his assessment 'challenging' and I did. However, it's a good challenge. I now have information on what will make my story fit better in the publishing world. I always had a certain blindness to this reality. It's one thing to read a book, a shelf of books, in your genre, but it isn't always easy to apply that to your own writing. I now have a better idea of what will make my novel work. I'm making a number of amendments. For instance, the book is now solely from the point of view of Steve (albeit still from a third person perspective) which has meant removing some chapters. I'll have to find a way to convey the information from these chapters in other ways. I always wondered whether having access to Steve's internal dialogue, his thoughts, would work in a...