Comments on: The Novel That Almost Was…And Will Be Again

By: Mimi

Mimi — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 00:48:08 +0000

Go ahead, shoot for the stars, you know you can do it, just keep on trucking and it will happen. Ideas are always just around the corner and you will find that as you change things around…Good Luck and happy wirtting…

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 14:44:27 +0000

I was reading that Karl Marlantes worked on Matterhorn for thirty years and cut it down from 1,600 pages to 600. “you get the feeling Marlantes is not overly worried about the attention span of his readers; you get the feeling he was not desperate or impatient to be published

By: Laura

Laura — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 02:51:55 +0000

Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming. The only way to do anything is to just keep doing it. You rock!

By: Kristyn

Kristyn — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 22:17:12 +0000

You’re a fantastic writer, Jenny! Keep on believing you can finish this novel and you’ll pull it together. Sometimes reworking and changing things, or stripping away elements makes the story make things more manageable. Good luck, Jenny, you have a lot of friends who support and believe in you!!

By: Edward G. Talbot

Edward G. Talbot — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 22:07:05 +0000

Of course you can do it. Just think of it in discrete pieces, not as one huge task. If plot strands are spinning out of control, an outline of sorts may be in order (not sure if you’re an outliner or not). A novel is not one big accomplishments, it is ten thousand little ones.

By: Kate Sherrod

Kate Sherrod — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 21:27:08 +0000

You *know* that I believe in you, Jenny, dear. And yeah, sometimes a serious pruning is just the thing to help you see what you’ve actually got. If you need another pair of eyes (though your PiC has good ones), let me know.