Didn't get as much writing done over the weekend as I would have liked. I'm at a point where I can't really move the plot to the next stage without the timeline being disrupted, so I need to think of some new plot things to happen in there to make the timing work. Or just skip to the next bit I know the plot points and figure out how to fill things in later.
With writing the book as journal entries, I can fill in a lot of dates with "nothing interesting happened" kind of entries, but I don't want to do weeks of those or the reader will get super bored. But I also don't want to write a whole lot of stuff that's not important just to fill in the days.
So my goal this week is to figure out if I can switch up the timeline a bit and still have things work the way they need to.
And maybe to send a few more Stranger to Kindness queries out. I got one more rejection over the weekend, but also sent out one more query because the book I just finished reading was so perfectly aligned with my own, I just had to query the author's agent. Luckily she thanked her in the acknowledgments so she was easy to find.
What are your goals this week?
It is always tricky to balance plot progression with maintaining a believable timeline. Perhaps a few small, character-driven moments could fill those gaps without feeling like filler. It is great you are still sending out queries, and finding an agent through an author's acknowledgments is a clever move. I wish you luck with your writing goals this week. www.melodyjacob.com
ReplyDeleteGood luck trying to figure out your manuscript issue. I'm thinking about my a little sagging middle. That was a great idea to query an agent you found out about after reading a book.
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