Appalachian Wordsmiths met last night. It had been so long, I was starting to have withdraw symptoms.
It was good to see everyone again. Five of us were at the meeting last night. Two of our regular members couldn't make it. If you're reading this post, "We missed you!"
It was good to catch up on all the news and happenings. After we did that, the ones who brought material read aloud and we discussed the stories and marked up our copies to give back to them.
Last night I read a newspaper article I'm working on and one of my picture books that I am continuing to edit.
I have sent this PB out many times, but only once since I did it '
right.' I have blogged about this before, my having a hard time keeping description out of picture books. I rewrote the story and took out all the beautiful descriptions that you are supposed to leave to the illustrator, and I love it. I tried to do all the right things. I started out with action, used lots of descriptive words such as
swoosh! swished, cracked, boomed, splashed, & splattered to make it exciting, and it is (in my opinion) a good story.
I tossed copies to everyone and said, "What's wrong with this?"
My writing friends found a few things wrong. Yea!
Now onto the revisions and sending it out again! I really have faith in this one story. I'm going to keep sending it out until (hopefully) I find a publisher who wants to take a chance on it.
What have you been doing? Anyone have a manuscript out there?
Are you in the middle of revising one of your stories? Do you have a work in progress?
We're all in this journey together. Share your stories, your ups and downs, let us cheer each other on and help each other along the way.
