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A Weekly Journal as One Author (Attempts) to Sell a New Novel

May 10, 2013 by Amy Fellner Dominy Leave a Comment

Join me each Friday as I continue to journal about the process of writing a new book. During November and NaNoWriMo I wrote the first draft. I spent Dec. Jan. Feb. Mar. and April revising. May it goes to critique partners and then my agent. I’ll share writing tips and the process I go through on the way (hopefully!) to making a sale.

Week 29 Recap

Goal: Address Critique Comments

Progress: Nearly done

I hate my critique partners. They know me too well. They know that I have, shall we say, some bad habits as a writer. And they call me on it.

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Weekly Journal as one Author (Attempts) to Write a New Novel

May 3, 2013 by Amy Fellner Dominy 2 Comments

Join me each Friday as I continue to journal about the process of writing a new book. During November and NaNoWriMo I wrote the first draft. Now it’s time to revise and rework. I’ll share my tips and the process I go through on the way (hopefully!) to making a sale.

Week 28 Recap

Goal: Be Patient

Progress: Not much

Hi All! Happy Friday and welcome to the Blog of Frustration. Yeah, I’m in a funk today, so be warned: Crabbiness to follow.

It’s all the WAITING that does it to me.

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Weekly Journal as One Author (Attempts) to Write a New YA Novel

April 19, 2013 by Amy Fellner Dominy 1 Comment

Week 26 Recap

Goal: Polish up manuscript…send it off to critique partners

Progress: Done and…almost done

This week, I’m still enjoying the knowledge that the book is done. I’ve been doing some polishing work and correcting the timeline, but it’s about to go out for critique. I’ll keep you all posted on the notes I hear back.

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Weekly Journal as One Author (Attempts) to Write a New Novel

April 12, 2013 by Amy Fellner Dominy 1 Comment

Week 25 Recap

Goal: Finish FIFTH Complete Revision

Progress: DONE!!

If you’ve been following along with me, you know it’s been months of work to get to this point. It took not one, not two, not three, not four but FIVE times through this book to figure out the story I wanted to tell.

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Weekly Journal as One Author (Attempts) to Write a New Novel

March 22, 2013 by Amy Fellner Dominy 2 Comments

Week 22 Recap

Goal: Continue Rewrites (Fourth Time Through!)

Progress: Halfway through!

This is not how I planned things.

I was going to start this book during NaNo, write a messy draft, and then go through it again and have a really solid draft 2 to send off to my critique partners. That was going to happen at the end of January.

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