Whoa, I honestly can't believe all that has happened in the last couple of days. My head is totally spinning. Like mad. And it's only going to get worse. Yikes! Okay, I'm getting ahead of myself here: yesterday I received a revision request from an agent for Colors Like Memories. This brought on a host of emotions: yay, she liked it enough to want me to fix its problems (and there are a lot of them...), bummer that she didn't like it as it is and I'm not good enough to do this right the first time (or whatever turn this is in the query game), and yay I have someone who's in the biz who is offering to help me out! I'm still not sure which emotion is winning :)
The only reason I say that is because I'm staring down a total re-write of the book. There are very few things I'll get to leave alone, if any. I need to shift the age down to high school (something I've been afraid I'd have to do since I wrote the dang thing), and roll three people into one super-character. And make the book less like a lifetime movie (I'm trying to remember if I've ever seen a lifetime movie...not sure about that one). Uber lots to do! (And I am apparently loving the parentheses tonight!)
I do think the scariest part is this: making all these changes, taking the time to rip the whole book to shreds and build it back up, and there's no promise of representation. I know this is pretty standard, but it's kind of troubling. I have to keep telling myself, okay, even if this doesn't work out, there's going to be a much more marketable book in the end, one I should be able to get an agent with, even if this whole thing doesn't pan out. I hope. *gulp*
Anyone else out there have any fun advise or stories dealing with this kind of thing?
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