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and draft done
Feb. 8th, 2015 09:25 amFinished the revised draft of the novelette late last night. It's now standing at 17598 words, having grown from the original version at 12k, and is definitely better for it. Or at least looks less like the script for a radio play. :-) Of course, I still need to find a decent title for it. I suck at titles. And then I need to go and make a list of places to submit it to.
Contemporary m/m erotic romance, and vanilla, all of which affect the list of potential markets. It's not long enough for Loose Id, and I'm not convinced that another revision pass would take it up to 20k. I do have another market in mind, with a minimum word count of 15k, so I'll try there first. But I'm taking a pragmatic view of its chances there, which is "give the editor a chance to reject it, don't reject yourself by not even submitting". Time to trawl the market listings at ERWA and Absolute Write, so as to be ready to move on to the next in the list.
I need to let it sit for a couple of hours, and then go through for one last check for inconsistencies caused by adding a couple of scenes in the other character's POV. And maybe I'll get a bright idea for those last couple of paragraphs that still look like a radio script. But it will probably be heading in the direction of the beta readers today.
Contemporary m/m erotic romance, and vanilla, all of which affect the list of potential markets. It's not long enough for Loose Id, and I'm not convinced that another revision pass would take it up to 20k. I do have another market in mind, with a minimum word count of 15k, so I'll try there first. But I'm taking a pragmatic view of its chances there, which is "give the editor a chance to reject it, don't reject yourself by not even submitting". Time to trawl the market listings at ERWA and Absolute Write, so as to be ready to move on to the next in the list.
I need to let it sit for a couple of hours, and then go through for one last check for inconsistencies caused by adding a couple of scenes in the other character's POV. And maybe I'll get a bright idea for those last couple of paragraphs that still look like a radio script. But it will probably be heading in the direction of the beta readers today.