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Next Steps

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This entry was posted on Thursday, October 26th, 2006 at 12:32 am and is filed under Untitled (1st), Untitled Comic Fantasy, Writing. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

5 Comments

  1. S William Shaw says:
    10/26/2006 at 1:34 am

    I have learned to embrace the bad first draft. It took a while, but I came around.

  2. Carlie says:
    10/29/2006 at 4:17 am

    NaNoWriMo is worth the effort! I found it so exhilarating. I’m looking forward to it beginning

  3. Unfocused Me says:
    12/7/2008 at 3:03 pm

    I think this means you finished the one-pass revision process here, in which case (1) congratulations, and (2) you started NaNo five days later? Color me impressed.

    I’m curious about what happened with the novel — did you send it to beta readers? Shop it to agents or publishers? Trunk it and move on?

  4. Jason Penney says:
    12/7/2008 at 4:27 pm

    @Unfocused Me – Thanks. I did in fact participate (and win) NaNo that year (and the next).

    During the five days between this post and starting NaNo I sent manuscripts to four first readers (with instructions to hold comments/questions until after November). I received feedback from two of them and realized that the book still needed a lot of work. After some soul searching I trunked it. I don’t think my skills were up to what I was trying to do at the time.

    Miracles, the novel I’m revising now, is my NaNo2006 novel.

    Thanks for stopping by!

  5. Unfocused Me says:
    12/8/2008 at 9:01 am

    That has to be hard, to trunk something you’ve spent so much time on. After this pass on Meet the Larssons, I have a couple of readers lined up (including my wife, who doesn’t go easy on me), and I may have to make the same decision when they’re done. Another new experience to look forward to.