Jan. 3
That's the final date that I can sign up for the San Diego State Writers Conference at the early bird rate and submit the first 10 pages of my two books for review by agents and editors. I have only 5 more full days before that deadline to make sure that my 10 pages are in acceptable form to send off to professional critics. Yikes!
I think I'm set on the first 10 pages of my young adult novel, but the first 10 pages of my book that I would categorize at this point as women's fiction is still a work in progress. I got it back from a friend who read it for me -- my second friend to do so -- and now I'm editing and adding things as per her suggestions. I'm almost done, but I'm still hesitant to send my pages off for professional critiques.
My biggest fear, of course, is that the agents will tell me when we meet at the conference at the end of January that I'm a hack. That there's not enough description or there's too much. That the characters are poorly drawn or the reader can't sympathize with them. Etc., etc., etc.
But then, I'll never know one way or the other unless I work up the nerve to send in my work. It's now or never, I guess.
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