Write on, Wednesday: Carrying On
By Leslie Lindsay Okay, so we left off last Wednesday talking about the 7 key reasons your manuscript blood, sweat, and tears is rejected by agents/editors via a Susan Meier’s workshop I attended. Well, what do you say we continue with some hints and tips for how you may go back to that keyboard (after you have cried your heart out, stomped around in a funk, and eaten your weight in chocolate). If the rejection comes back with something like, “Nothing seems to happen in this story.” Well, you have a plot problem. Go back and speed-read your manuscript. Fast. See what you can do to make it have a few more problems. If you want to change something, that’s fine…but see if you can tweak just a few words here and there so that you are not drastically re-writing the whole darn thing. You may want to make a list of 20 here…what are 20 things you can do to add some more varirty to your plot. It’s okay to be outrageous here. You …