tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26791026.post431510427540739922..comments2024-03-26T18:28:06.391-04:00Comments on Evil Editor: Face-Lift 1398Evil Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03879826770199639420noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26791026.post-51090176350023430492020-05-02T08:17:36.299-04:002020-05-02T08:17:36.299-04:00Just for what it's worth, I am another that al...Just for what it's worth, I am another that also took the "sharing a planet" thing as laying the ground work for a sci-fi kind of story. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26791026.post-37836768034845942672020-05-01T09:38:00.502-04:002020-05-01T09:38:00.502-04:00First, thank you so much for taking the time to lo...First, thank you so much for taking the time to look at this! I'll definitely be taking the suggestions on board.<br /><br />Re the comment above:<br /><br />"Of concern, your word count is way over for your genre"<br /><br />I'm torn about this. I set my target for editing it down based on The Fire Within, which my daughter devoured along with all its sequels a few years ago and which is firmly MG. That's around the 88,000 mark. Could I drop an entire third of Dreamers? Honestly, I think I'd need professional help seeing how to do that. If that means it doesn't get published, I suppose I'll just have to write something else :)<br /><br />"The line about sharing a planet with her sister"<br /><br />Yep, gotcha. Will rethink.<br /><br />"If there's a sanctuary for them, are the creatures actually imaginary? Is the dream-world/sanctuary an actual dream (arrived at by sleeping)?"<br /><br />In the book dreams (everyone's dreams) are a little like Tel'aran'rhiod in the Wheel of Time books: a place populated by our imaginations but which can also be visited 'in the flesh' at will by some individuals (and by ordinary people, given the right circumstances). The sanctuary was created by one such, who wanted to save imaginary creations from vanishing when the dreams they live in evaporate.Peelinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17093240527129586261noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26791026.post-81310421186982599772020-04-30T16:31:23.096-04:002020-04-30T16:31:23.096-04:00This piqued my interest. Bravo.
Of concern, your...This piqued my interest. Bravo.<br /><br />Of concern, your word count is way over for your genre (Upper middle grade should be less than 60K). There are books that are longer that get published, yes, but they're usually not debuts.<br /><br />A couple more nits in addition to EE's:<br /><br />The line about sharing a planet with her sister threw me in a more science fictiony direction, you might want to rephrase.<br /><br />If there's a sanctuary for them, are the creatures actually imaginary? Is the dream-world/sanctuary an actual dream (arrived at by sleeping)?<br /><br />---<br />If you're new to thinking about publishing, check out Writer's Beware and make sure you do your research.<br /><br />Good Luck with this.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com