Plans (plans, plans)
Oct. 8th, 2025 03:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rainwatersparkWell, I was GOING to try to edit Novel #4 slowly, but lately I've been experiencing stress symptoms again, and I'm wondering if I'm unconsciously putting pressure on myself to finish editing. :(
SO I'm going to try to finish editing Novel #4 by the end of the month, though that's a (very, very) soft deadline. At least, I'll try to figure out how to resolve the major plot hole. I accidentally broke part of the investigation last weekend, so that's what I'm going to try to fix this weekend. It's likely going to involve reverse-outlining the story. Right now, there are roughly three new chapters I need to write, and I'll try to finish 2/3 of them this weekend. And pray that that alleviates my stress symptoms...
I begrudgingly sent one new query for Novel #5, but I'm at the point where the idea of continuing to query this book honestly makes me feel ill. I'm submitting it to Bindery's open submission period this month (I'll likely need to polish it a little the weekend before), but I really want to move on and find some way to get it in readers' hands if traditional publishing isn't interested.
I guess I'm experiencing pressure to finish editing Novel #4 because I never like to have unfinished projects hanging over my head, but I'm not really feeling any pressure to query it ASAP. I would have to query the same group of agents I just queried for Novel #5, and I have a grudge against all of them for rejecting Novel #5, so I don't feel much excitement. I also know the previous submission history will be held against this book and there will be agents who reject for that reason alone.
I've had the urge to work on a new story lately (for the first time in a while), but I haven't really come up with a story idea I feel passionately about yet.
SO I'm going to try to finish editing Novel #4 by the end of the month, though that's a (very, very) soft deadline. At least, I'll try to figure out how to resolve the major plot hole. I accidentally broke part of the investigation last weekend, so that's what I'm going to try to fix this weekend. It's likely going to involve reverse-outlining the story. Right now, there are roughly three new chapters I need to write, and I'll try to finish 2/3 of them this weekend. And pray that that alleviates my stress symptoms...
I begrudgingly sent one new query for Novel #5, but I'm at the point where the idea of continuing to query this book honestly makes me feel ill. I'm submitting it to Bindery's open submission period this month (I'll likely need to polish it a little the weekend before), but I really want to move on and find some way to get it in readers' hands if traditional publishing isn't interested.
I guess I'm experiencing pressure to finish editing Novel #4 because I never like to have unfinished projects hanging over my head, but I'm not really feeling any pressure to query it ASAP. I would have to query the same group of agents I just queried for Novel #5, and I have a grudge against all of them for rejecting Novel #5, so I don't feel much excitement. I also know the previous submission history will be held against this book and there will be agents who reject for that reason alone.
I've had the urge to work on a new story lately (for the first time in a while), but I haven't really come up with a story idea I feel passionately about yet.
