I've settled on The Operator as the title of my mystery/suspense book. I'm a little farther along (roughly 31k words, or 124 ms. pages), and have a few more scenes to write before I have to decide on the ending. I never write with an entire story known. When I start writing, I always have a few points I intend to make, but I never have the entire story plotted out. Sometimes, I'll have the ending, or maybe just a few scenes. In Mournful Weeps the Willow, I only had an image of a girl on a hill in a thunder storm. As I started writing, that image disappeared and the tale changed entirely from what I had expected. So it is with The Operator. I've said it before: I'm the reader as much as the writer, and I'm wondering what will happen in the end.
On another issue, my daughter was reading TFW yesterday, but she did not give me any feedback and I didn't ask.
Shaun
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Monday, May 19, 2008
One Genre Too Many
I still haven't heard from my two readers/critics, at least not as far as the critique on The Forgotten World goes. My daughter is up here in MD for a while, having finished her Junior year at LSU. My other reader and I communicate regularly, but I refuse to ask either if she has or when she will read the ms. So, I have been working on a new mystery/suspense story. It's been a good 8 weeks since I even looked at TFW, so I might stop the current project and go back to that one. I think I have enough distance to work the next draft or polish the latest rev.
With that in mind, it leads to a problem. I'm 25k words into a mystery/suspense novel; I have a paranormal/mystery on the shelf; I have two 2nd draft fantasy tales awaiting critical review (critical as far as I'm concerned). I suspect any agent or editor would tell me to stick to one genre and gather a fan base/audience before venturing into another genre. The problem for me is that I love to write both of them and horror too.
Oh well. I guess I'll just keep writing what makes me feel good and when/if I ever get an agent, I'll worry about sticking to one genre then.
Shaun
With that in mind, it leads to a problem. I'm 25k words into a mystery/suspense novel; I have a paranormal/mystery on the shelf; I have two 2nd draft fantasy tales awaiting critical review (critical as far as I'm concerned). I suspect any agent or editor would tell me to stick to one genre and gather a fan base/audience before venturing into another genre. The problem for me is that I love to write both of them and horror too.
Oh well. I guess I'll just keep writing what makes me feel good and when/if I ever get an agent, I'll worry about sticking to one genre then.
Shaun
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