I have finally accepted that the Nice project is highly unlikely to be finished by the deadline that I set myself which was the best part of four months longer than the original one.
The first draft is finished, in as much as the basic story is told but I needed to add around 19,000 words to get it to the length that it needs to be. You may remember that I intended to find those by developing characters and adding a couple of situations and while that is still the case, progress is proving to be slower than I anticipated. I have just taken a current word count and I still need to find just shy of 16,000 words for it to reach the publishers required length.
I'm not giving up on it though because I think that it has potential and is not that bad for a first attempt at a new genre.
On a different note I am still waiting to hear back about any of the short stories that I have submitted recently and yes I know it goes with the territory but it is a little disheartening all the same. I did however sell a short non fiction piece this week - well more of a filler really - just 250 words but at the end of the day a sale is a sale.
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It's frustrating waiting, isn't it Colette? But well done for selling that non fiction piece. Keep at it!
Yay for your sale :0) And I'm keeping everything crossed you'll hear good news about your short stories soon.
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Thanks FP and Suzanne x
Great news on your sale. Keep going on your other work as I'm sure you'll get there in the end.
Good luck
Waiting is hard, but congratulations on the sale :o)
Thanks Jarmara and Karen - still waiting. A couple of the stories went to TLFF and they say if you haven't heard in 6 months its a no so I think I'm about there on that deadline and I had a couple with WN and Jill is probably swamped but at least she didn't reject ot straight away so there is still hope.
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