Herding my cats along
Posted on June 9, 2010
Filed Under Queries, Writing Process - Panix, novels |
Somehow the four novels I currently have in WIP or finished form are running around in different directions. I find it necessary to herd these all together, but it’s somewhat like herding cats. They are all different and have different needs and are leading me in different directions. So I must set priorities. Still, I’ve made progress on three of my works. Bellian is the only one that still remains untouched.
I took the time to review the Meddle novel. It still had first person artifacts littered throughout. Now those are gone and some of my writing has smoothed out. I look at my current WIP as the beginning of the novel. There is an event that changes the main character’s dynamic with his environment. That point is at about where I left off. Now I have to replot to increase the length and make the novel exciting. It ends up being a bit of a thriller as do all four of my novels in process.
I sent another query (snail mail) out to a very good agent. I have to get going and finish sending out the email queries by the end of the weekend and the mail queries the week after that.
With Panix in query and Meddle tucked away for a bit, my novel writing will be world building and plot development for the rest of June for my thriller novel. My brother took a look at my initial treatment and he thought my little group of intrepid shadow CIA operatives were a cross between Mission Impossible and A-Team. I’ve got to develop a better mission for the organization, but action is action and that is the purpose behind this novel. I unwittingly named the MC Ethan. That was Tom Cruise’s name in the Mission Impossible movies. That fact must have been stuck somewhere in my cranium.
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