Heartening news for the downtrodden. (Disregard if you are not one. I am one!)
Write a good na-no novel and you might have this kind of happy ending. Here's an excerpt for any writer who may be experiencing creative constipation.
Peter Twohig recently sold his novel, "
The Cartographer," to HarperCollins (Australia):
When my (now) agent saw the novel, she gave it to two readers. The three of them suggested extensive changes and corrections, especially to do with the timeline. As a result, I added ten chapters and rewrote much of the novel (which I had considered to be complete), reducing the timeline from ten months to three months and cutting out a number of incidents. After a few months of polishing, she considered the novel ready to send to publishers. As I said, the novel has now been acquired by HarperCollins. I now swear by: having the novel read; checking everything a dozen times, especially time references; making sure that each important character has a distinctive voice.
I do all my writing using Scrivener, the most useful program for writers ever invented, and I export finals into Nisus Writer Pro for polishing. I use DEVONthink Pro and DEVONagent to collect and organise info.
Here's a link to the full interview:
http://blog.lettersandlight.org/post...th-pete-twohig
Unfortunately, I am unable to buy this book from Amazon (main) in ebook format.
Don