I’ve decided to resurrect one of my stories. It was a story I loved at the time I started it. I still love it actually. I just haven’t done anything with it in almost ten years. I don’t even know why I strayed from it and chose to work on other things. The story is a good one. The pitch is good. I had a published author ask me about the book a year after she read the first five pages. She said she kept thinking about the story. Yet I let it collect dust. Seventeen chapters going nowhere.
A little over a year ago I joined a website where you can post your book (or part of it) and get feedback. People can back your book. As it moves up in the ranks you have a chance to be read by an editor. I put about ten thousand words up there and promptly forgot about it. Recently I went back to that site. Since I started logging in again my book has moved up quickly without me doing anything. The comments I’ve been getting tell me the pitch is great, the writing is fast paced and entertaining. So I decided I would see if I could finish the darn book.
Part of my problem back when I started writing it was it was new territory for me. It was straight suspense/thriller. No romance at all. No matter how I tried to make it a romance it just wasn’t. So I had to write it the way I wanted to write it. But my critique partners didn’t believe people would do bad things just for the thrill, the absolute power they felt. Or just to see what it felt like. Now we know people do that which makes it even scarier when there’s no reason. Now that I’ve decided to stop trying to make it “fit” somewhere or try to over motivate bad guys who really just have a mob mentality, I think I can finish the book.
I’ll have to find a place in my list of things to finish. But it will get finished and then I’ll try sending it out to agents who actually represent that type of book.
Off to work. It’s a grey, ugly day out there but at least it’s not cold.
Until next time…
Cindy
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