Wow! I'm back again, right on time! Who would have thought? Not me! Without further ado, here what I've been up to this week: Writing my new main Wip! ... for which I desperately need a title! Even just a working title!!! If you haven't seen it already, I have added my October accountability calendar on the homepage. This weekend I plan on finishing part 6/7 of my book. Yes, you read that right. I broke the book into seven parts to have a better overview of things, because believe me when I say a lot of things happen in the story. Not gonna brag, but my novel isn't very conventionally structured. I know this can pose a problem, but why do writing rules exist if not to break them? Basically, you'll usually have your story structure with start, climax and finish. Trust me, I know what I'm talking about, I graduated in Film Studies as well! In other words, it'll look something like this: (Image taken from www.mightybytes.com) You have the usual inciting incident, the complication, climax and then the end of the story. But boy oh boy, I would not consider this novel to fit in there. If a usual structure like the one above looks like a lonely mountain, I imagine my novel as looking more like a panorama of the Alps (trust me, I know what I'm talking about, I literally live in the Alps). So yeah, basically I am currently editing the finale, even though it's not really the finale since it's not the big battle at the end of the story. Let's just say it's a big battle preceding the finale one. I wrote in a post months ago about how I first started this book writing it in a non-chronological way, for some reason starting the novel in the middle of the story. Well, I've finally come to that part after putting everything back in order. And let's just say that the writing is somewhat outdated. Back in the day, the characters weren't fully fleshed out, nor was their history, or the worldbuilding. Meaning that most of what I had written is now unusable. Meaning that I'm going to spend most of today editing, editing, and editing some more - yay! But as they say, better to be editing than writing from scratch, right? ... Right? Now I know I am bragging, but I'm also quite a fan of what I've written, because I have been playing with a trope I haven't really tried out yet. And trust me when I say I've been having a lot of fun with it. Basically, my novel is an enemies to lovers, but I love complications, so it's much more complex than just a progression that looks like this: Enemies -> Lovers. To avoid spoilers I won't look up my notes, but the relationship between the two main characters goes a bit like this: Enemies -> Archenemies -> Enemies -> Accomplices -> Friends -> Enemies -> Accomplices -> Friends -> Almost-lovers -> Enemies -> Friends -> Lovers -> Enemies -> Friends -> Lovers -> Enemies... I think I'll stop there hahaha, you get the gist. In any case, I'm pretty proud of it and I'm excited to get to the 2nd/3rd draft stages and then be able to send it to critique partners! Besides, it's always good to have a project to keep the mind off rejected queries... Yes, Dreaming got rejected again... Maybe I shouldn't have queried one of my favourite agents at such an early stage of my querying journey but whatever. What's done is done. So far, I've sent out about 6 queries and received 3 rejections, which I think are all form rejections, as far as I can tell. Yay? Again, as you can see on the accountability calendar, my plan is to send out a second batch of queries next week. Until then, I will be re-editing my query letter, for which I have already received really helpful feedback. If you are also querying, don't hesitate getting in touch for a query letter exchange! In any case, for anyone else in the query trenches, I highly highly recommend working on another project you really love, because it does take your mind off things and reminds you that you have so many more potential projects to be published. But then again, take all of this with a grain of salt because, after all, I have really just entered the trenches, and I have only sent out so many queries. Meet me again in a year and I bet my opinions will have changed drastically! But now to a more fun thing I did this week! I read my first arc book! Yes, again, you read that right! This week, I got to read my first ARC book! An ARC book is an Advanced Reader Copy of a book that hasn’t been published yet. It is shared to reviewers so that they can get their reviews in before the book is released the general public, and to create a hype around the publication. I got the opportunity to read BIANCA TORRE IS AFRAID OF EVERYTHING by Justine Pucella Winans, a YA murder mystery with a wholesome array of queer characters. Needless to say, I absolutely loved it and downed the whole book in a day! I’m going to be posting small reviews on my goodreads and on twitter soon, and then, in March/April of 2023, nearing the official publication date, I will be posting a full-length review on this here blog (with memes, of course!). I also hope that this opportunity will push me to try and get more of a following on here and on my twitter (and on my tik tok? Maybe?), because what is a review without an audience? Haha. In the meantime, if you're lucky, you might have the privilege of getting another blog post in this coming week (shocking, I know!), because I did also want this blog to have reviews on it and so far we're at zero on that account, oops. Anyway, I was thinking of publishing my review of the series Heartbreak High while it is still relevant, before I dive more into books and keep up to date with the newest trends on that end. If you have any recommendations for books that have been published recently that you really loved (or hated, why not), be sure to let me know, my specialty being YA SFF, but I do enjoy anything contemporary, and, of course, anything LGBTQ+! Until then, have a good week, and see you soon!
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