Man, that week blew by fast. It was busy at work and I ended up working at home a few nights last week, so I didn't read much (of other people's books, anyway).
I have been reading my completed book no. 2 -- my teen novel. So far, so good. Not much re-writing. A few odd grammar, punctuation and typing corrections. A few areas where I needed to add a bit, so I'm at 290 pages instead of the 289 I started with, but that's not bad, considering that I'm up to page 52.
I'm nervous, because my first book -- the chick-lit/romance/women's fiction novel -- is in the hands of a friend. She's the type of person who won't hold back with her feedback, so I hope she likes it, but I'm looking forward to her critiques too.
I'm reading "Sister" by Rosamund Lupton. I was on the waiting list for it at the library, but I saw it there on Saturday, so I picked it up early. So far, I like it. It's a murder-mystery written as if the older sister is writing a letter to her younger sister explaining how she found out who the younger sister's killer was. It sounds gimmicky -- and it is -- but it works.
My first book is written as every other chapter in the woman's and the man's voice, which I hope doesn't come across as gimmicky. I didn't mean it that way. I just wanted to tell the story through both characters' eyes in their own voices and the story seemed to flow pretty well in that format. Even when I cut whole chapters, it pieced back together with their voices alternating. We'll see what my reader thinks. I'm anxious to know if she likes it.
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