Celebrate the Small Things 26-4-25

 

It's the end of the week, so it's time to Celebrate the Small Things.

What am I celebrating this week?

I've made progress on the new book.  I haven't written as much as I'd hoped to over the break, but I'm at around the 32K mark.  I'm pretty sure most of what I've written is pretty diabolical, but I'm going to keep going in the hope I'll be able to peel the good stuff out of the crap in revision.  At least I've finally got my two characters together now.   It just took 12 chapters to get there.

And because I went back and re-wrote the beginning to try and get them there faster (it didn't), now I have two versions of the start of the book and I'm not sure which works best.  Which is all very annoying.  Seriously, if I ever say I'm going to write a book start to finish again, please tell me to get off the crack.  It's just not the way my brain works or the way I pull stories together.  I feel like this one is already a nightmare editing project and I'm not even halfway through drafting.

I sent my first queries out for A Stranger to Kindness and have already had three rejections.  So I will try and get a few more out next week.  I love this book so much, but it is a character journey rather than a super-plotty story that races from one place to the next.  I worry that maybe those early chapters (which is all an agent sees in a submission package) might feel too quiet.

I guess we'll see what happens.  Keep your fingers crossed for me..

What are you celebrating this week?